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- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Does Linux use segmentation?
- Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!think.com!unixland!rmkhome!rmk
- From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 20:56:06 GMT
- Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Message-ID: <9211111556.11@rmkhome.UUCP>
- References: <1992Nov11.011359.27473@cbnewse.cb.att.com> <1dpov0INNqcu@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Nov11.021246.3563@news.acns.nwu.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov11.021246.3563@news.acns.nwu.edu> hpa@nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin) writes:
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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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- BSS is a term from old IBM mainframe operating systems.
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- It stands for:
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- Block Started by Symbol
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- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP unixland!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP
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