[Info-vax] CRTL and RMS vs SSIO

[Lawrence D’Oliveiro]

On Friday, October 8, 2021 at 4:34:50 AM UTC+13, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> Integrate stream file access support at the XQP and allow C and C++ and 
> other non-punched-card-style app designs and stream- and OO-focused 
> languages to optionally bypass RMS entirely. 

I assume you mean “bypass RMS for non-block-level I/O”, since it was always possible for nonprivileged code to do direct ACP/XQP calls like IO$_ACCESS, READ/WRITEVBLK and friends.

(You soon appreciate how much work $PARSE is doing for you...)