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A version of [[REXX]] originally introduced by Mansfield Software in 1985 as a part of their [[KEDIT]] software package for DOS, but to make it fully compatible with more recent versions of the IBM editors a REXX interpreter was needed, the company then made a standalone version of it availalbe under the "Pesonal REXX name and in 1988 delivered an OS/2 version of it. Marketing was moved to a company called Quercus Systems in the spring of 1991 and Mansfield renamed their version KEXX. Quercus Systems was already selling Personal REXX in a bundle with their terminal emulator/communications software package [[REXXterm]]. | A version of [[REXX]] originally introduced by Mansfield Software in 1985 as a part of their [[KEDIT]] software package for DOS, but to make it fully compatible with more recent versions of the IBM editors a REXX interpreter was needed, the company then made a standalone version of it availalbe under the "Pesonal REXX name and in 1988 delivered an OS/2 version of it. Marketing was moved to a company called Quercus Systems in the spring of 1991 and Mansfield renamed their version KEXX. Quercus Systems was already selling Personal REXX in a bundle with their terminal emulator/communications software package [[REXXterm]]. | ||
Despite the inclusion of a free version of REXX in OS/2 v2 and up, Quercus ported their version to 32bit OS/2 and sold it as a kind of a "turbo REXX" with more features and speed, but fully compatible wit the standard version. | |||
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Revision as of 18:31, 28 December 2014
Description
A version of REXX originally introduced by Mansfield Software in 1985 as a part of their KEDIT software package for DOS, but to make it fully compatible with more recent versions of the IBM editors a REXX interpreter was needed, the company then made a standalone version of it availalbe under the "Pesonal REXX name and in 1988 delivered an OS/2 version of it. Marketing was moved to a company called Quercus Systems in the spring of 1991 and Mansfield renamed their version KEXX. Quercus Systems was already selling Personal REXX in a bundle with their terminal emulator/communications software package REXXterm.
Despite the inclusion of a free version of REXX in OS/2 v2 and up, Quercus ported their version to 32bit OS/2 and sold it as a kind of a "turbo REXX" with more features and speed, but fully compatible wit the standard version.
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Publications
Local articles
- A Review of Personal REXX for OS/2 by Jonathan Story
- A Brief Look at Personal REXX by Gordon Zeglinski
Author
- Mansfield Software Group
- Quercus Systems
- Charles Daney