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From: larry@jc3b21.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Re: where does bss come from?
Message-ID: <474@jc3b21.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 9-Oct-86 07:37:15 EDT
Article-I.D.: jc3b21.474
Posted: Thu Oct  9 07:37:15 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Oct-86 20:10:57 EDT
References: <2627@burdvax.UUCP> <1096@oliveb.UUCP> <161@nbc1.UUCP> <473@jc3b21.UUCP>
Organization: St. Petersburg Junior College, FL
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Summary: yet another one!

In article <473@jc3b21.UUCP>, jra@jc3b21.UUCP (Jay R. Ashworth) writes:
> 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?

Just to confuse the issue.  The same pseudo-op was (is) used on the CDC
6000, 7000 (, and I believe 3000) series computers.  In THAT environment
it stood for 'Block Storage Start' (no, I don't know why 'start' instead
of 'size' ...)

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