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Re:IBM RISC System/6000 Family – Computer Ads from the Past by skissane on Monday December 02, 2024 @04:09AM (#42294457)
Pick ran on a plethora of different platforms. Ultimate even had a port for IBM mainframes, PICK/370.

How much use all these different ports saw, I don’t know. Obviously some of them were pretty big (you mention Prime, I’ll mention R83) - others less so. I wonder how many customers IBM RT PC PICK ever actually had. Probably significantly less than PICK ever had on AIX for RS/6000 (at one point several different PICK vendors offered Unix ports, and AIX was commonly on the list of supported Unix flavours)

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Re:IBM RISC System/6000 Family – Computer Ads from the Past by smackeyacky on Monday December 02, 2024 @05:39AM (#42294857)
Universe is alive and, not well, but surviving. It’s still used in a common central banking system. Still chugging away on AIX too.

I hate it.

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Re:IBM RISC System/6000 Family – Computer Ads from the Past by sillywalk on Monday December 02, 2024 @02:18PM (#42299388)
> I wonder how many customers IBM RT PC PICK ever actually had.

According to Wikipedia:

Approximately 23,000 RTs were sold over its lifetime, with some 4,000 going into IBM's development and sales organizations. Pick OS sales accounted for about 4,000 units.

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