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From: ted@hpwrce.HP.COM ( Ted Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Re^2: BSS data segment
Message-ID: <580002@hpwrce.HP.COM>
Date: 4 Aug 89 23:15:25 GMT
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>As a new comer to UNIX and C I have always wondered what BSS stands for??

Block Started by Symbol.
I believe it traces back to some old IBM machine.

-Ted