Irvine, California-based PickTel Inc, the erstwhile Pick Systems Inc subsidiary now an independent entity, is hopeful of closing an exclusive deal that will put a third-party object-oriented Mac-like interface over Pick on Unix System V.4. Such a move, PickTel officers reckon, would make Pick on Unix suitable for soft ware engineering work and appealingg to the Big Six accountancy firms like Peat Marwick McLintock and Anderson Consulting. PickTel has now washed its hands of reselling AT&T Co hardware and is simply focusing on the software it resells under licence from Pick: Pick under System V.4 for 80386 and 80486 boxes and other AT&T systems. It is currently in the process of doing an implementation for Pyramid Technology Corp’s new MIPS Computer Systems Inc RISC-based machines. PickTel expects to deliver the interface, code-named I-sed, by the year-end.
