Pick emerges from the shadows

While battle rages in the 16 bit micro market over the rival merits of CP/M-86, MS/DOS, MP/M-86 and Unix, another strong contendor may beat them all to become the standard for business use. Pick is emerging from its years of seclusion as an operating system well-suited to end users; a fact reflected by the 20,000-strong, and growing, user base and the number of recent micro implementations.