Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Launch of the Classical Computing Laboratory at IBM Poughkeepsie

On Mon, Jul 8, 2024 at 11:08 AM Dan FitzGerald via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:

Fun fact: the VM/CMS port of Space Invaders was done by a young Mike Cowlishaw, who developed the Rexx language.

Amazing. I never used Rexx directly, but 20+ years ago, I wrote some stuff in Arexx on the Amiga (including a full-blown mailing list package because I was running UUCP (not sendmail etc) and the available stuff was harder to get working on AmigaDOS than just writing my own (simpler) list manager. I'd definitely like to see Space Invaders running on VM/CMS. -ethan