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- From: jshearer@beta.tricity.wsu.edu (Jeff Shearer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: a MB style flame against IBMs
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.091447.26049@serval.net.wsu.edu>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 09:14:47 GMT
- Article-I.D.: serval.1992Dec23.091447.26049
- References: <1992Dec23.055634.20899@samba.oit.unc.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec23.055634.20899@samba.oit.unc.edu> John.Carver@launchpad.unc.edu (John Carver) writes:
- >WARNING: you might want to bail out now and skip all this. Its just a
- >meaningless tirade against IBMS after what I went through recently. So
- >if you keep reading afte this warning, don't complain to me, man.
-
- Not complaining, just clarifying a few things.
-
- >Here we go...
- >ARexx - they don't have anything even close over there - not even under
- >OS/2, as far as I know. IBM and the Clones need to get their collective
-
- Just FYI, ARexx is a port of Rexx, a language designed by IBM. Rexx is a
- part of OS/2, but I'm not sure how much it is used.
-
- >The DOS command line, by default, doens't let you acces anything except
- >the *one* previous command, and even they you can only backspace to
- >correct things. They can fix this, they claimed, but jeez, even the
- >AmigaDos CLI, as awful as it is, lets you recall and edit lots of
- >previous commands. Can't IBM with its billions of dollars do what CBM
-
- Don't confuse the Shell with the CLI, big difference.
-
- - Jeff
-