OS/2 and AmigaOS connection

[hishamk]

REXX was traded for "some Amiga technology" incorported in OS/2's Workplace Shell.

Snippet in The Art of Unix Programming.

and http://www.os2bbs.com/os2news/OS2Warp.html.

[mongo]

I don't know where that information came from, but it is completely untrue.

[desiv]

I don't know where that information came from, but it is completely untrue.

Kual!
Where's your documentation that it's untrue?

I've heard that OS2 / Amiga connection mentioned before, and would love to see some actual information..

What do you know and where do you know it from?

Thanx,

desiv

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

It's listed on the Wikipedia entry, as well (not that that necessarily makes it true, I understand).

"In addition, IBM once made a deal with Commodore to license Amiga technology for OS/2 2.0 and above in exchange for the REXX scripting language.[45] This means OS/2 may have code not written by IBM, which can prevent the OS from being open-sourced in the future.[46][47] On the other hand IBM donated Object REXX for Windows and OS/2 to the Open Object REXX project maintained by the REXX Language Association on Sourceforge.[48]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/2

[psxphill]

I don't know where that information came from, but it is completely untrue.

The way the story goes is that because MacOS, Windows & AmigaOS were all developed at the same time they couldn't sue each other for stealing ideas as they couldn't have. IBM came late to the party with OS/2, so they licensed some things.
 
Commodore got AREXX out of the deal, the irony is that all the time I ran OS/2 I never used REXX & I don't even remember it.

[mongo]

The way the story goes is that because MacOS, Windows & AmigaOS were all developed at the same time they couldn't sue each other for stealing ideas as they couldn't have. IBM came late to the party with OS/2, so they licensed some things.
 
Commodore got AREXX out of the deal, the irony is that all the time I ran OS/2 I never used REXX & I don't even remember it.

Commodore licensed ARexx from William S. Hawes. ARexx contains no code from IBM, why would you need a license from them for it?

IBM and Commodore had a cross licensing agreement. They didn't need to license anything, they already had access to all of Commodore's patents.

[desiv]

IBM and Commodore had a cross licensing agreement.

Ah, so maybe there is something to it...
Interesing..
Thanx!

desiv