Board:   [DoveNet] Unix/Linux
Subject: Re: What is UNIX? (was: H
From:    Digital Man
Date:    Sat Jan 17, 2026 22:23

  Re: Re: What is UNIX? (was: H
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to Neko on Fri Jan 16 2026 08:16 am

 >  There were some interesting data architectures out there in the 80s and
 >  90s. my first job was programming and administering a PICK system, and
 >  it took a while to get my head around it. The file system was the
 >  database, and each field could be a list of other fields. A database
 >  query language and BASIC were included in the OS.

A friend/bandmate/mentor/co-sysop of mine worked at General Automation (GA) in the late 80s where the target OS was PICK and the development environment was UNIX (of some kind). He was writing boot firmware (the "executive") for a 68040 based system that never shipped, I guess.
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  digital man (rob)

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