ets@wrkgrp.COM (Edward T Spire) (02/08/91)
>Article 196 in comp.lang.rexx: >From: rick@ADS.COM (Rick Chestek) >Subject: Rexx on what platforms? > >I'm curious as to what platforms have Rexx implementations available? >I have it for my amiga, I gather from postings to this newsgroup that >a VMS version exists; what others? (My particular interest/need at >the moment is for a SUN/UNIX version, but I never know what I'll need >in the future.....) The Workstation Group provides uni-REXX for many variants of Unix. This is a high-performance interpreted REXX, which has been ported to ma platforms and operating systems. The only operating environment other t Unix that we are actively marketing is for VAX/VMS systems. Here's our understanding of the current REXX vendor community and what market: IBM - VM/CMS (original implementation, 370 assembler based) - MVS/TSO (port of VM/CMS implementation) - OS/2 EE (new implementation, C-based) - OS/400 (a port of the OS/2 implementation) (The above four ports complete IBM's commitment to provide REXX on all "SAA" platforms. IBM has informally stated that they are considering porting REXX (presumably their newer implementation) to DOS/VSE and AIX, but there has been no formal committment to such ports, nor does there appear to be serious work in progress in this direction (IMHO.)) Mansfield Software Group - "Personal REXX" for MS/DOS (i.e., PC/DOS), th non-IBM implementation of the language to be marketed. Commodore - "AREXX" for the AmigaDOS environment, originally by Bill Haw You are already aware of the amazing popularity of REXX on the Amiga. The Workstation Group - "uni-REXX" for Unix (most popular platforms are supported), now also available for VAX/VMS, "uni-REXX". Kilowatt Software - "Portable REXX", originally released for Tandem syst now also available for MS/DOS (i.e., PC/DOS), "Portable REXX". As to language level, many versions implement basically Cowlishaw's 1st specification, with some extensions. A few implementations actually liv to the 2nd edition specification. I believe these more modern versions OS/2 EE, OS/400, and Portable REXX. BTW, all these organizationa (along with some "user" organizations) are currently working together to formulate an ANSI standard for the REXX la