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- In article <17332E52CS86.U249026@netnews.uci.kun.nl>, U249026@netnews.uci.kun.nl (Branko Collin) says:
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- >Before REXX came to Amiga, it already existed on PCs, so I guess there
- >must be floating around cheap interpreters or compilers somewhere.
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- No, Rexx started on IBM mainframes, not PCs. Yes, at least two
- companies sell Rexx on the PC, one for DOS, and Watcom sells one for
- Windows. For that matter, it's included in OS/2, too.
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- However, I've always found that if I looked at a Rexx script for
- OS/2 or even older Rexx for mainframes, it doesn't look like the
- Rexx scripts I saw on the Amiga. Amiga scripts looked like someone
- wished it was BASIC with inter-process communications. The other
- ones were really scary, like they were doing something else. :-)
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