> it starts with "R" and rhymes with "-ex". :-)
What: "Rolex"? Is that brand only 30 years old? Really? Wow, it seems
older. ;-)
It really IS Friday. And it's the first day of spring today, too -- a
double-dipping delight!
A little VM rexx history from my misty memory: Ted Johnston of SLAC once
told me late one night at SHARE that SLAC was an early tester of a new IBM
processor (or was it a language?). They worked closely with IBM to get it
working. When it reached GA, a grateful IBM asked if there was anything
they could do in return. SLAC asked that the Rex code be released to all
customers as a component of CMS. And then there was light... :-)
Thank both Mike Cowlishaw and whomever at SLAC convinced IBM to make Rex
publically available as Rexx.
For more details about REXX's history, along with an incredible history of
VM, read Melinda Varian's thorough paper "VM and the VM Community: Past,
Present, and Future", currently at:
http://www.princeton.edu/~melinda/25paper.pdf
Mike Walter
Hewitt Associates
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...and 30 years ago, it rhymed with "-ex" not "-exx". At least that was
the case with the IBM internal version of what rhymed with "-ex".
Jim
Dave Jones wrote:
> Hi, gang.
>
> Guess what's 30 years old today? Here' a hint.....it starts with "R" and
rhymes with
> "-ex". :-)
>
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