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<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="610"><tr valign="top"><td width="10"><img width="10" src="//www.ibm.com/i/c.gif" height="4" alt=""/></td><td width="443"><table width="443" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr valign="top"><td height="80"><img width="1" src="//www.ibm.com/i/c.gif" height="6" class="display-img" alt=""/><a href="/software/" class="bctl">Software</a><span class="bct">&nbsp;&nbsp;&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><a class="bctl" href="/software/awdtools/">Software Development</a><span class="bct">&nbsp;&nbsp;&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><a class="bctl" href="/software/awdtools/rexx/">IBM REXX Family</a><span class="bct">&nbsp;&nbsp;&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><br /><h1>IBM REXX Family</h1><img width="1" src="//www.ibm.com/i/c.gif" height="6" class="display-img" alt=""/></td></tr></table></td><td width="7"><img width="7" src="//www.ibm.com/i/c.gif" height="4" alt=""/></td><td valign="top" width="150"/></tr></table><table id="content-table" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="610"><tr valign="top"><td width="10"><img width="10" src="//www.ibm.com/i/c.gif" height="4" alt=""/></td><td width="600"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td class="v14-header-violet" width="600">Technology</td></tr></table><img width="600" src="//www.ibm.com/i/c.gif" height="8" alt=""/><div><p><strong>History and standards</strong></p><blockquote dir="ltr" style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"><p><img alt="Link" border="0" src="//www.ibm.com/i/v14/icons/fw.gif"/> <a href="rexxhist.html">A brief history of 'Classic' REXX</a></p><p><img alt="External link" border="0" src="//www.ibm.com/i/v14/icons/sout.gif"/>  <a href="http://www.rexxla.org/Standards/standards.html">XThe X3.274 ANSI Standard for REXX</a> current and future work, errata, etc.</p><p><img alt="Link" border="0" src="//www.ibm.com/i/v14/icons/fw.gif"/> <a href="rexnews1.html">REX 1.04 news</a> [21 Aug 1979]</p><p><img alt="Link" border="0" src="//www.ibm.com/i/v14/icons/fw.gif"/> <a href="share56.html">REX first public paper--SHARE 56</a> [18 Feb 1981]</p><p><img alt="Link" border="0" src="//www.ibm.com/i/v14/icons/fw.gif"/> <a href="rex250.html">REX 2.50 announcement</a> [27 Oct 1981]</p><p><img alt="Link" border="0" src="//www.ibm.com/i/v14/icons/fw.gif"/> <a href="rexxsp3.html">REXX for VM/SP3 announcement</a> [9 Feb 1983]</p><p><img alt="Link" border="0" src="//www.ibm.com/i/v14/icons/fw.gif"/> <a href="rexnew14.html">REX 3.20 news--final internal release</a> [11 Jul 1983]</p><p><img alt="Link" border="0" src="//www.ibm.com/i/v14/icons/fw.gif"/> <a href="rexxtso.html">REXX for TSO/E announcement</a> [19 Apr 1988]</p><p><img alt="Link" border="0" src="//www.ibm.com/i/v14/icons/fw.gif"/> <a href="rexxcomp.html">REXX Compiler announcement</a> [7 Feb 1989]</p><p><img alt="Link" border="0" src="//www.ibm.com/i/v14/icons/fw.gif"/> <a href="rexxslac.html">First REXX Symposium announcement</a> [17 May 1990]</p><p><img alt="Link" border="0" src="//www.ibm.com/i/v14/icons/fw.gif"/> <a href="rexx400.html">REXX for AS/400 announcement</a> [21 Aug 1990]</p><p><img alt="Link" border="0" src="//www.ibm.com/i/v14/icons/fw.gif"/> <a href="rexxos2.html">REXX for OS/2 announcement</a> [30 Oct 1990]</p><p><img alt="Link" border="0" src="//www.ibm.com/i/v14/icons/fw.gif"/> <a href="rexxx3.html">X3 announcement for ANSI REXX</a> [12 Nov 1990]</p><p><img alt="Link" border="0" src="//www.ibm.com/i/v14/icons/fw.gif"/> <a href="rexxvse.html">REXX for VSE announcement</a> [9 Feb 1993]</p><p><img alt="Link" border="0" src="//www.ibm.com/i/v14/icons/fw.gif"/> <a href="rexxaix.html">REXX for AIX/6000 announcement</a> [19 Oct 1993]</p><p><img alt="Link" border="0" src="//www.ibm.com/i/v14/icons/fw.gif"/> <a href="rexxla94.html">Call For Participation in the "REXX Language Association"</a> [5 Feb 1994]</p><p><img alt="Link" border="0" src="//www.ibm.com/i/v14/icons/fw.gif"/> <a href="rexxnetw.html">REXX for Netware announcement</a> [1 Mar 1994]</p><p><img alt="Link" border="0" src="//www.ibm.com/i/v14/icons/fw.gif"/> <a href="rexxcics.html">REXX for 
CICS/ESA announcement</a> [5 Apr 1994]</p><p><img alt="Link" border="0" 
src="//www.ibm.com/i/v14/icons/fw.gif"/> <a href="rexxdos.html">REXX for PC DOS 
7 announcement</a> [28 Feb 1995]</p><p><img alt="Link" border="0" 
src="//www.ibm.com/i/v14/icons/fw.gif"/> <a href="winorexx.html">Object REXX for 
Windows announcement</a> [25 Feb 1997]</p></blockquote></div></td></tr></table>
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