Gang,
Since this has become a history lesson, let's please move it to
u2-Community, Okay?
- Charles Barouch, Moderator
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hi Sean,
>
>Before there was this new fangled Universe and Unidata, PICK was a platform
>independent os/database. It used to run on a variety of platforms from big
>IBM mainframes all the way down to small minicomputers, and then when PC's
>were invented (8086 based!!) even on them.
>
>This was all achieved by having a PICK Virtual Machine, which was ported to
>each of these platforms. This VM had a very strange structure, with a
>number of registers and it's own set of instructions. The language used to
>program this VM at a low level was called the PICK assembler. I believe
>this is the language being referred to...
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