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From: mcravit@best.com (Matthew Cravit)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 15 May 1997 10:10:55 -0700
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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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