I’ve administered this OS, which for us was used to develop images on plates for printing. It ran atop ATT UNIX and had to be “defragged” every now and again to regain contiguous space back. This process involved backing up the system to 250MB QIC tapes (twice for two sets of tapes), wiping the disks and then restoring the data from tape. This was an all-weekend process and really sucked if a tape broke, but that’s why there were two sets and scotch tape can work in a pinch when the other tape is bad.

It used to be the Generalized Information Retrieval Language System, but for some reason Dick didn't like GIRLS.

Fun fact: Richard Head was the assistant Attorney General for the State of New Hampshire

He was and is also a dickhead. Now he makes money giving talks

https://halfmoonseminars.org/presenter/richard-w-head/

Funny thing, where I come from pikk is slang for dick. So Dick Pick could as well be Richard Penis

Yeah, no, I'm not duckduckgoing that.

I'm gonna need to know your familiarity with this machine, op

Not Richard, but Dick

I've worked with this monstrosity, it's not unlike other mainframe operating systems like IMB's "System i"

I believe there's still developers out there working on modern versions of it

https://www.rocketsoftware.com/sites/default/files/2025-09/universe-feature-release-matrix.pdf

The whole OS is essentially a really big nosql database, the filesystems are journaled and you have "files" but you also have dynamic files called "print queues" and executables are "jobs" that run queries and output into queues.

I know at least two of the major hotel chains use them still in their core network.

wtf this is real

My DMs are open for Dick Pick images.

If you say pick in norwegian, it means dick.

Run bitch! Get some help!

I feel like this would have been more interesting if they used Richard.

>not named after this pick https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick_Szeged

What a POS

I worked at a place that used a Pick - D3 based ERP system for decades. They employed like the last three D3 programmers in the world (two were children of the other).

While I was there we had a major major moonshot project to replace it with a D365 solution.

(No, it didn't improve anything, but it sure cost a lot and came with big ongoing costs)

Actually really good