lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) (10/06/89)
In <208@canary6.UUCP>, king@cell.mot.COM (Steven King) writes: >Okay, I've been seeing here lots and lots of stuff about ARexx. Having cut >my teeth on Rexx under VM/CMS, I'm rather interested in getting a copy for >myself. The question is... Where? Is it PD or shareware, and available >somewhere on the nets? Or is it a commercial product? If so, what can I >expect to pay for it? ARexx is commercial, and list price is about $50. Do yourself a favour if you buy it, and add another $50 (list) for WShell, which knows all about ARexx, and makes ARexx scripts transparently callable as if they were binary executables. I have seen both of these packages advertised in the $35 range from mail order places. Both packages are written by, and available from: William S. Hawes P.O. Box 308 Maynard, MA 01754 Phone: (617) 568-8695 >Someone (I forget who) remarked that VM/CMS is one of the few IBM mainframe >OSs that isn't one big kludge. You mean, VM/CMS is one of the BETTER ones?!? >The mind reels... It's true. My mind has been reeling for years. Every OS from IBM, (on their mainframes that is), has been a heavily patched version of the one that preceded it, with the notable exception of VM/CMS. > For the record, both my alma mater (Michigan Tech) and >my place of employment (Motorola) use VM/CMS on the mainframe. Though it >pleases me no end that we software engineers here at work use the Sun >network FAR more than the mainframe! Good choice. :-) -larry -- My name is OS/2, Mandius, Kludge of Kludges. Look upon my works, ye CS majors, and gag. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
king@cell.mot.COM (Steven King) (10/07/89)
Okay, I've been seeing here lots and lots of stuff about ARexx. Having cut my teeth on Rexx under VM/CMS, I'm rather interested in getting a copy for myself. The question is... Where? Is it PD or shareware, and available somewhere on the nets? Or is it a commercial product? If so, what can I expect to pay for it? Someone (I forget who) remarked that VM/CMS is one of the few IBM mainframe OSs that isn't one big kludge. You mean, VM/CMS is one of the BETTER ones?!? The mind reels... For the record, both my alma mater (Michigan Tech) and my place of employment (Motorola) use VM/CMS on the mainframe. Though it pleases me no end that we software engineers here at work use the Sun network FAR more than the mainframe! /-----------------------------------------------------------------------------\ | There's nothing in this world quite so | Steve King (312) 991-8056 | | dangerous as a bored engineer. | ...uunet!motcid!king | | | ...ddsw1!palnet!stevek | \-----------------------------------------------------------------------------/