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#! rnews 2061 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!eru.mt.luth.se!newsfeed2.luth.se!news.luth.se!erix.ericsson.se!uab.ericsson.se!not-for-mail From: Michael Salmon <Michael.Salmon@uab.ericsson.se> 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: Tue, 20 May 1997 17:04:38 +0200 Organization: Ericsson Utvecklings AB Lines: 18 Message-ID: <3381BD86.95E@uab.ericsson.se> References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <5l3c2f$i1j@pasilla.bbnplanet.com> <337A003F.6A7B@ncofsi.com> <3378D37F.462F3A47@gaijin.com> <Pine.SUN.3.95.970513170134.19438A-100000@omni2> <Pine.GSO.3.96.970513200952.7143D-100000@tree.Stanford.EDU> <EA6HHD.AAF@serval.net.wsu.edu> <5lk9kxlsxa.fsf@tequila.systemsz.cs.yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: uabs78c65.uab.ericsson.se Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-User: uabmesa X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:45226 comp.os.linux.misc:176207 comp.os.linux.x:62069 alt.os.linux:21419 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3346 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41287 gnu.misc.discuss:31394 comp.unix.solaris:106987 Stefan Monnier wrote: > > wcochran@eecs.wsu.edu (Wayne Cochran - CS) writes: > > what does bss stand for > > I alwayss thought of it as "Bulk Storage Section", but I admit that the last > "s" is unclear. Nope, it means Block Started by Symbol, a reserved but uninitialized area that starts at a symbolic address. It come from an IBM(?) assembler though one would expect that it came from GE/Honeywell. The is also BES, Block Ended by Symbol but that was for fortran. My favorite acronym is ls, List Structure, apparently borrowed directly from multics. -- This space intentionally left non-blank.