Who was it that put PICK on the IBM Series One? What was the company name? And whatever happened to him?

Concerned Netizen wrote:
You may be thinking of the late Jim Whelan of Seattle Lab.

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frosty

"frosty" <frosty (AT) bogus (DOT) tld> wrote

S1 was done by SMI? In Chicago? Ridgway? GOd, my memory's getting fuzzy!

Chandru

"Concerned Netizen" <SpammeNotDangit (AT) Bewell (DOT) com> wrote


"frosty" <frosty (AT) bogus (DOT) tld> wrote

think was based somewhere in the Midwest, possibly chicago. Memory is hazy
after two decades, but I seem to remember he got into some kind of difficuly
with Pick regarding copyright or patent infingement.

"murthi" <c_xyz_murthi (AT) seeing_xyz_green (DOT) net> wrote

Not as fuzzy as mine. Bingo, kudos - who was the CEO?

"murthi" <c_xyz_murthi (AT) seeing_xyz_green (DOT) net> wrote

In retrospect, I'm not sure SMI did the S1, but that was the company I think i was looking for.

Does anyone know who founded it?

George Ridgway was already mentioned.

Concerned Netizen wrote:
Seattle OS, later renamed Pick Blue IIRC.

Luke

IIRC, SMI did a pick implementation on some heavy metal from IBM, but it
wasn't S1.

CDI which became Seattle Lab did the Series/1 in 1983. Gordan Ayres, Kip
McAfee, George Coleman, Mark Brown, Denis Kreuger and a great guy I can't
for the life of me remember his name--we went back to General Dynamics
together in '84--(sorry; and sorry if I misspelled anyone's name)


"Concerned Netizen" <SpammeNotDangit (AT) Bewell (DOT) com> wrote


"murthi" <c_xyz_murthi (AT) seeing_xyz_green (DOT) net> wrote

In retrospect, I'm not sure SMI did the S1, but that was the company I think
i was looking for.

Does anyone know who founded it?

Mark Brown wrote:
FWIW, Ultimate also did a port to the big IBM iron. 4300 and 3090
architecture, IIRC.

Weren't they also known as "Seattle OS" and, later, Pick Blue (using the
IBM-style horizontal blue lines for their logo)?

Luke