They haven't been device "addresses" since 1983 with the advent of MVS/XA, in 
spite of the fact that people who had been calling them device addresses since 
1964, for the most part, still call them device addresses.  They have been 
device "numbers" since XA's redesign of the I/O architecture.  And developers 
and documenters still create screen displays and tech doc with the now 
31-years-obsolete nomenclature.  I complain now and then to deaf ears.  But 
that's ok, since I still call z/OS by the name MVS.  At least I don't still 
call it "OS/VS2 Release 2."  Lol

Bill Fairchild

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Dan
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 6:56 PM
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Subject: Re: 5 Byte Device Addresses?

This is still a DOC problem as the manual simply states these are device 
addresses.

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