comp.databases.pick
The Pick operating environment and MultiValue databases.
Pick — the MultiValue database family including D3, UniVerse, UniData, jBASE and Revelation — ran a large share of the world’s unglamorous business systems, and comp.databases.pick was its town square.
BASIC dictionaries, ODBC bridges, migration and the eternal "Pick vs. relational" argument: decades of institutional knowledge from practitioners of a paradigm the wider industry kept forgetting existed.
Reading comp.databases.pick today
- Historical archive: Google Groups — comp.databases.pick (coverage varies by group and era).
- Live access: point an NNTP newsreader at a modern server — see accessing Usenet today.
- The original news2mail e-mail subscription service ended in the mid-2000s and no longer operates.