Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?

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From: Michael Salmon
Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 00:00

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Stefan Monnier wrote:
> 
> wcochran@eecs.wsu.edu (Wayne Cochran - CS) writes:
> > what does bss stand for
> 
> I alwayss thought of it as "Bulk Storage Section", but I admit that the last
> "s" is unclear.

Nope, it means Block Started by Symbol, a reserved but uninitialized
area that starts at a symbolic address. It come from an IBM(?) assembler
though one would expect that it came from GE/Honeywell. The is also BES,
Block Ended by Symbol but that was for fortran.

My favorite acronym is ls, List Structure, apparently borrowed directly
from multics.

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From: Michael Salmon <Michael.Salmon@uab.ericsson.se>
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 1997/05/20
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