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The Lisa Office System was the operating system, graphical desktop, and office suite designed for and shipped with the Apple Lisa computer. It was Apple's first attempt at creating a fully graphical operating environment. This included a graphical desktop, drop down menus, common input controls, multiple windowed applications and data sharing between applications.


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The Pick Operating System is a multi-user database oriented operating system for the IBM PC. It includes its own multi-user database, and native applications are written in Pick BASIC. It is similar to, and competed against Thoroughbred OS. Later versions of the Pick System database and programming language were hosted under Unix or Windows instead of using its own OS.


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The UCSD p-System is a highly portable operating system. It uses the Pascal programming language, and all applications are compiled to interpreted bytecode. This means an application written for the p-System should run on any p-System platform, regardless of the CPU and architecture. However, depending on the use, it could be quite slow. p-System, but it lost its portability advantage as the industry standardized on the x86 IBM PC architecture.