Well, perhaps I should have written *limited* instead of limited.

--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

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From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List <[email protected]> on behalf 
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Sent: Monday, January 29, 2018 2:16 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Fair comparison C vs HLASM

On 2018-01-29, at 11:55:56, Seymour J Metz wrote:

> While the DOS I/O was very device dependent, there was the DTFDI with limited 
> device independence.
>
Insofar as "device independence" means restricting every device
type to the capabilities of a card reader/punch.

CMS is similarly limited.  Pipelines adds some flexibility.

-- gil

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