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 <5levf4$gnc@web.nmti.com>, Peter da Silva <peter@nmti.com> wrote:
>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. 
>
>You got your unix and lisp reversed, thweetie.
>
>(CAR/CDR)

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

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2. The name 'bss' comes from an assembly psuedo-operator on the IBM 7090
machine, which stood for "block started by symbol."
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Maybe Lisp also used this machine (and I am not your thweetie).

vern

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Date: 1997/05/15
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