Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?

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From: Matthew Cravit
Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 00:00

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In article <x7911guc7t.fsf@pc37.mpn.cp.philips.com>,
Jim Reid  <jim@pc37.mpn.cp.philips.com> wrote:
>
>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

My recollection (which may be incorrect, since I've never worked on a
PDP-* machine) was that bss was a PDP-8 opcode that had to do with 
loading data into that particular block of memory. I might be wrong,
though.

/MC
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From: mcravit@best.com (Matthew Cravit)
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 1997/05/15
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