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From: paul@whuts.UUCP (HO)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: where does bss come from?
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Date: Fri, 10-Oct-86 09:55:58 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 10 09:55:58 1986
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> > > > The name BSS comes from an assembly pseudo-operator on the IBM 7090
> > > > machine, which stands for "Block Started by Symbol".
> > > 
> > > I always thought it meant "blank storage space".
> > 
> > DAP-16 Assembly on the OLD Honeywell 1648A used the same pseudo-op, and I
> > believe it was "block storage space"
> > 
> 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...

According to Maurice Bach's book (The Design of the Unix Operating
System), bss is block started by symbol.

	ihunp!whuts!paul