Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?

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From: Vern Hoxie
Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 00:00

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In article <EA6HHD.AAF@serval.net.wsu.edu>,
Wayne Cochran - CS <wcochran@eecs.wsu.edu> wrote:
>Here is one TLA I could never find out for those of you who code in
>assembly.  Just as there is a text and data section for executable and
>read-only data repectively, what does bss stand for in bss section (it is
>the read/write data section for most assemblers/linkers)? I always just
>called it the bs section.

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

I read that a couple of years ago in the COFF (Common Object File Format)
manual.  "COFF" is the myriad of header structures for the compiled
programs.  AT&T put out a 2 inch thick manual just to explain them.  My
copy is currently misplaced.

vern
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From: vern@zebra.alphacdc.com (Vern Hoxie)
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 1997/05/15
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