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Guy Harris (talk | contribs) →Requested move 3 September 2023: Here's a table showing what various IBM S/360 assemblers, including the "Basic Programming Support/360: Basic Assembler" and the "OS/360 Assembler" support. The latter supports things that the former doesn't. |
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:::This establishes that "some people" refer to the assembly language accepted by HLASM as Basic Assembler Language. Since the earliest (360) language is BAL, and HLASM processes BAL, one logically concludes that all intermediate assemblers process BAL as well, so the entire article is indeed about BAL. There are no other identifying names for any of these languages, nor alternate meanings of BAL, so BAL as a title is indeed [[WP:precise]] and unambiguous, denoting exactly the scope of the article. [[User:Mathnerd314159|Mathnerd314159]] ([[User talk:Mathnerd314159|talk]]) 19:00, 5 September 2023 (UTC)
::::{{tq|the entire article is indeed about BAL}} So are you claiming that {{section link|Basic Assembly Language|Macros and conditional assembly}} is about BAL? It mentions a feature that BAL lacks (and even notes that). [[User:Guy Harris|Guy Harris]] ([[User talk:Guy Harris|talk]]) 20:03, 5 September 2023 (UTC)
::::::Everything in the table in Appendix D (pages 59-61) of [http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/360/bos_bps/C20-6503-0_BAL_Feb65.pdf IBM System/360 Basic Programming Support Basic Assembler Language] that the "Basic Programming Support/360: Basic Assembler" column indicates isn't supported would not belong in an article that's solely about the IBM Basic Assembler Language. If any of that stuff is discussed in this article, this article is not solely about the IBM System/360 Basic Programming Support Basic Assembler Language. [[User:Guy Harris|Guy Harris]] ([[User talk:Guy Harris|talk]]) 21:30, 5 September 2023 (UTC)
== DOS vs OS? ==
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