ARexx is an implementation of the Rexx language for the Amiga, written in 1987 by William S Hawes, with a number of Amiga-specific features beyond standard REXX facilities.
| FactSnippet No. 1,653,542 |
10 Facts About ARexx
2.
Programs written for ARexx are called "scripts", or "macros"; several programs offer the ability to run ARexx scripts in their main interface as macros.
| FactSnippet No. 1,653,543 |
4.
ARexx is written in 68000 Assembly, and cannot therefore function at full speed with new PPC CPUs, a version of ARexx has not been rewritten for them and is still missing from MorphOS 3.
| FactSnippet No. 1,653,545 |
5.
Notwithstanding this fact, the existing version of ARexx continues to be used, although it is not distributed with MorphOS.
| FactSnippet No. 1,653,546 |
6.
ARexx was developed on an Amiga 1000 computer with 512k bytes ofmemory and two floppy disk drives.
| FactSnippet No. 1,653,547 |
7.
ARexx is a programming language that can communicate with other applications.
| FactSnippet No. 1,653,548 |
8.
The AmigaVision multimedia presentation program has ARexx port built in and can control other programs using ARexx.
| FactSnippet No. 1,653,549 |
9.
Any Amiga program which has an ARexx port built in can share its functions with ARexx scripts.
| FactSnippet No. 1,653,550 |
10.
One of the main features of ARexx is the fact it could expand the capabilities of the AmigaOS by adding some procedures the OS lacked.
| FactSnippet No. 1,653,551 |