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It had Rexx as a system scripting language and also a full TCP/IP stack vs. the kludges that were part of Windows at the time...
by YZF 9y ago
It had Rexx as a system scripting language and also a full TCP/IP stack vs. the kludges that were part of Windows at the time...
- tyingq 9y agoHmm. I remember KA9Q, Crynwr packet drivers, Trumpet Winsock, etc. I don't think the creators of any of these got enough credit or compensation. Probably other similar solutions as well. I think there was an open source ne2000 driver with similar popularity.
- jacquesm 9y agoPeter Tattam at least got some belated credit. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2282875 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2282875
- kitd 9y agoInteresting fact: when you ran a Rexx program, the OS precompiled it to IR and prepended it to the script. As a result, Rexx programs could run pretty quick (for the time). Source: wrote whole systems in OS/2 Rexx!