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Subject: Re: the 'entry' reserved word
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Date: Thu, 14-Nov-85 05:10:00 EST
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My best guess is that "entry" was a unique symbol which the
loader used to find the entry subroutine which would call
main (or possibly _main as it does in most C implementations
today)?  Dennis Ritchie : what say?

				Ted Goldstein