Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?

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From: Scott Michel
Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 00:00

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In gnu.misc.discuss Jim Reid <jim@pc37.mpn.cp.philips.com> alleges:
: vern@zebra.alphacdc.com (Vern Hoxie) writes:

: > 'bss' was the name of a register on the IBM mainframe used to run early
: > UNIX by Ritchie et al. 

: Nope. Early UNIX systems did not run on IBM mainframes. The name BSS -
: Block Symbol by Segment I think was the acronym - derives from some
: dinosaur OS from the 70's (IBM?) where it referred to a chunk of a
: process's address space that was zeroed at startup. This was more or
: less the same thing as the uninitialised data segment of a UNIX
: process.

Sounds better when pronounced 'basic scratch space'.


-scottm
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From: Scott Michel <scottm@cs.ucla.edu>
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 1997/05/17
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