Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?

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From: Andrew M. Langmead
Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 00:00

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vern@zebra.alphacdc.com (Vern Hoxie) writes:
>>In article <EA7MIG.6JD@zebra.alphacdc.com>,
>>Vern Hoxie <vern@zebra.alphacdc.com> wrote:
>>> 'bss' was the name of a register on the IBM mainframe used to run early
>>> UNIX by Ritchie et al. 

>I had my reference wrong.  My information is from "The Design of the UNIX
>Operating System", Maurice J. Bach, page 25, Note 2:

>----------
>2. The name 'bss' comes from an assembly psuedo-operator on the IBM 7090
>machine, which stood for "block started by symbol."
>----------

You were also somehow mistaking a CPU register with an assembler
pseudo-opcode.
-- 
Andrew Langmead

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From: aml@world.std.com (Andrew M. Langmead)
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 1997/05/18
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