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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > YOSPOS > Pick operating system
 
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pram
Jun 10, 2001
 undoubtedly this OS is a piece of poo poo, but get a load of this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick_operating_system

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It is named after one of its developers, Dick Pick.

haha. lol

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Zlodo
Nov 25, 2006
 im the 1965 release called GIRLS

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RustyKnight
Jul 11, 2016

every day is a new horror



 dick pic operating system

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akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

Zlodo posted:

im the 1965 release called GIRLS

yeah

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Pick was originally implemented as the Generalized Information Retrieval Language System (GIRLS) on an IBM System/360 in 1965

way to bury the lede there, pram

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Bored Online
May 25, 2009

We don't need Rome telling us what to do.
 richard pick

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pram
Jun 10, 2001

akadajet posted:

yeah


way to bury the lede there, pram

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Pick, is in fact, Generalized Information Retrieval Language System, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GIRLS

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CRIP EATIN BREAD
Jun 24, 2002

Hey stop worrying bout my acting bitch, and worry about your WACK ass music. In the mean time... Eat a hot bowl of Dicks! Ice T



Soiled Meat

pram posted:

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Pick, is in fact, Generalized Information Retrieval Language System, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GIRLS
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The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?
your operating system is a pic of dick

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akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

The Management posted:

your operating system is a pic of dick

I'm going to be hanging out in the YOSPOD

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bradzilla
Oct 15, 2004

 Richard Pick

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git apologist
Jun 4, 2003

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Dick Pick died of stroke complications in October 1994.
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pram
Jun 10, 2001
 but his legend lives on, in his lovely os

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git apologist
Jun 4, 2003

 I hope he wasn’t found by his moms mid-stroke, Dick Pick dick going soft quick

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Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




 rip dick pick

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carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)
thought this thread was about an operating system by famous forums poster pick

it should be

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You Am I
May 20, 2001

Me @ your poasting

 I used to manage a PICK database about 19 odd years ago

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DonutKing
Mar 27, 2009

You Am I posted:

I used to manage a PICK database about 19 odd years ago

I still manage a PICK database today, although its called UniVerse now.
A lot of credit unions and building societies in Australia and NZ run on it.

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pram
Jun 10, 2001

DonutKing posted:

I still manage a PICK database today, although its called UniVerse now.
A lot of credit unions and building societies in Australia and NZ run on it.

mate!

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akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

DonutKing posted:

I still manage a PICK database today, although its called UniVerse now.
A lot of credit unions and building societies in Australia and NZ run on it.

what do Australian banks need dick pick databases for?

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Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

scrum bored

Scott Baio Nudes posted:

richard pick

richard select

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The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?

akadajet posted:

what do Australian banks need dick pick databases for?

they have very strict know-your-customer requirements

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Soricidus
Oct 21, 2010
freedom-hating statist shill
prick operating system

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akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

Soricidus posted:

prick operating system

the apple thread is over there, buddy :newlol:

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