Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?

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From: Jim Reid
Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 00:00

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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.

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From: Jim Reid <jim@pc37.mpn.cp.philips.com>
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 1997/05/15
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