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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Rexx on the pc
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Date: 8 Feb 89 14:55:33 GMT
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In <797@csd4.milw.wisc.edu>, duncan@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Shan D Duncan) writes:
>-> Mansfield Software has a new release of Personal REXX for the IBM-PC 
>-> available.  THe package is $200, cheaper if you get it mail-order.  I've
>-> used REXX on the mainframe for a while and like it.
>
>I have a friend who is always telling me "Yeah the amiga is "neat" BUT
>my Leading Edge can do just about everything cheaper!   WELL not when it
>comes to running rexx!

To add to that, imagine trying to do anything really useful on a single tasking
machine with Rexx. Not much else running to pass messages to. :-)

>Thanks to Bill Hawes!!

Yes, thanks Bill.

-larry

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