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From: parris@itcatl.UUCP (Parris Hughes)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Re: where does bss come from?
Message-ID: <159@itcatl.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 26-Sep-86 16:04:25 EDT
Article-I.D.: itcatl.159
Posted: Fri Sep 26 16:04:25 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 30-Sep-86 06:01:43 EDT
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In article <161@nbc1.UUCP>, abs@nbc1.UUCP writes:
> > In article <2627@burdvax.UUCP> eric@burdvax.UUCP (Eric Marshall) writes:
> > >	Could someone please tell me where the name BSS comes from.
> > >The comments in /usr/include/a.out.h says that it is uninitialized
> > >data. What's the connection?
> > >
> > The name BSS comes from an assembly pseudo-operator on the IBM 7090
> > machine, which stands for "Block Started by Symbol".
> > Dennis Chen @ Olivetti ATC
> > {allegra, fortune, glacier, hplabs, idi, ihnp4, sun}!oliveb!dchen
> 
> I always thought it meant "blank storage space".
> Andrew Siegel, N2CN		NBC Computer Imaging, New York, NY
> philabs!nbc1!abs		(212)664-5776

DAP-16 Assembly on the OLD Honeywell 1648A used the same pseudo-op, and I
believe it was "block storage space"

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