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From: bobr@zeus.UUCP (Robert Reed)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: where does bss come from?
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Date: Sun, 31-Aug-86 17:35:00 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 31 17:35:00 1986
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To my recollection, BSS is an old mnemonic from early IBM days, standing for
Block Started by Symbol, and related to BES, Block Ended by Symbol.