Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mcnc!spl
From: spl@mcnc.org (Steve Lamont)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Re^2: BSS data segment
Message-ID: <5025@alvin.mcnc.org>
Date: 5 Aug 89 15:28:36 GMT
References: <10587@smoke.BRL.MIL> <20900001@inmet> <69@harald.UUCP>
Reply-To: spl@mcnc.org.UUCP (Steve Lamont)
Organization: Microelectronics Center of NC; RTP, NC
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In article <69@harald.UUCP> jba@harald.ruc.dk (Jan B. Andersen) writes:
>mark@inmet writes:
>
 >>As a new comer to UNIX and C I have always wondered what BSS stands for??
>
>I saw it mentiond just a few days ago, but don't recall where.
>It stands for Block Started by Symbol, a phrase used by some old
>IBM assembler I think.
>-- 
>Jan B. Andersen                              ("SIMULA does it with CLASS")

IBM 709 class machine, to be exact.

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