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- From: nhc@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (n.h.chandler)
- Subject: Re: Anyone knows what BSS stands for? (was Re: Does Linux use segmentation?)
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 18:41:16 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.184116.14879@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>
- Summary: "bss"
- References: <1992Nov11.011359.27473@cbnewse.cb.att.com> <1992Nov11.021246.3563@news.acns.nwu.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov11.021246.3563@news.acns.nwu.edu>, hpa@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin N9ITP) writes:
- > In article <1dpov0INNqcu@agate.berkeley.edu> of comp.os.linux,
- > curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes:
- > > In article <1992Nov11.011359.27473@cbnewse.cb.att.com> sph1@cbnewse.cb.att.com (stephen.p.hill) writes:
- > > >
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- [ stuff deleted ]
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- > Agreed. "Text portion" would be more accurate, but I assume this term came
- > to UNIX from Multics, which *did* support segmentation. By the way, does
- > anyone know what BSS stands for? I have only seen "for historical
- > reasons"...
- >
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- A footnote on page 25 of "The Design of the UNIX Operating System" by
- Maurice J. Bach says,
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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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- Neville Chandler nhc@mtdcr.mt.att.com
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