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From: jra@jc3b21.UUCP (Jay R. Ashworth)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Re: where does bss come from?
Message-ID: <473@jc3b21.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 8-Oct-86 18:29:15 EDT
Article-I.D.: jc3b21.473
Posted: Wed Oct  8 18:29:15 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 10-Oct-86 00:47:59 EDT
References: <2627@burdvax.UUCP> <1096@oliveb.UUCP> <161@nbc1.UUCP> <159@itcatl.UUCP>
Organization: AE Technologies, Seminole, FL
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Summary: Alphabet Soup reigns supreme

In article <159@itcatl.UUCP>, parris@itcatl.UUCP writes:
> 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"
> 
> parris			....gatech!itcatl!parris

Ok, guys, one more for the pile.  They always told *me* that bss stood
for basic stack segment.  I *thinKk* (you do?:-) that I got that out of an
old AT&T manual (V7?) Oh, well...
-- jra
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