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From: ecf_stbo@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu (Old-Fashioned Staffordshire Plate...)
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Subject: Re: Is Microsoft's Internet plan more about its love of power than about users?
Date: 31 May 1996 16:46 EDT
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In article <4oe1bc$b2b@phobos.Candle.Com>, rgoer@rgoer.candle.com writes...
>In case you didn't know, IBM sells AIX, its version of Unix. REXX for
>AIX is extremely inexpensive.

Yes, AIX that classic jonny come lately. Jonny come lately the proportions
of which bill gates hisself would be proud (e.g. WOWIE!!!!!!!!!!!
bill gates, inventor of the internet, will be releasing something called a
'WEB browser'! Wonder what that is...  Dunno but he must be a JEANyous!).

I think REXX for unix is a third party product (UNI-REXX and UNI-XEDIT), but
maybe IBM made thir own for AIX.

Tom O'Toole - ecf_stbo@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu - JHUVMS system programmer 
**WAKE UP folks! Boycott Net$cape and Micro$oft greed driven proprietary
"enhancements"! BOYCOTT micro$oft network "msn.com", micro$oft money and other
attempts by the micro$oft monopoly to control electronic banking and commerce!**