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From: ccsis@bath.ac.uk (Icarus Sparry)
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Organization: Bath University Computing Services, UK
Message-ID: <EA6zIA.74y.C.amo@bath.ac.uk>
References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <Pine.SUN.3.95.970513170134.19438A-100000@omni2> <Pine.GSO.3.96.970513200952.7143D-100000@tree.Stanford.EDU> <EA6HHD.AAF@serval.net.wsu.edu>
Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 22:22:58 GMT
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In the referenced article, wcochran@eecs.wsu.edu (Wayne Cochran - CS) writes:
>Here is one TLA I could never find out for those of you who code in assembly.
>Just as there is a text and data section for executable and read-only data repectively,
>what does bss stand for in bss section (it is the read/write data section for 
>most assemblers/linkers)? I always just called it the bs section.

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