computers are a completely normal field where there are databases built on descendants of PICK OS, a database made in the 60s to organize parts for a helicopter that never existed, for a system called Generalized Information Retrieval Language System (GIRLS), as created by a guy named Dick Pick.
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oh COME ON.
I don’t remember much about it except that the concept was unique all right.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick_operating_system
We also had Medusa, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MEDUSA4 which was a multi monitored CAD system, with pucks... and a language called BASIS, a CAD api, I was admin, but I still pissed around with that :)
I was a PICK programmer for a couple of decades. Amazing how much you can squeeze out of a stone with proper, old school optimised system software.
The Java guys now need a couple of GB just to wipe their bum.
And it’s resource-light enough that there’s a copy in your smartphone.
Why do it? Is the built-in one lacking in some functionality? Don’t think so.
I'd like to see you try and run 16 users on a machine with 32mb of RAM like we did with PICK though.
Nothing but tits, dick, and racism. Sometimes all three mixed together!
Uh, somewhere. Don't remember at all where :c