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Subject: Re: UNIX NAME ABBREVIATIONS
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Date: Wed, 25-Nov-87 22:47:21 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 25 22:47:21 1987
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> Here's another little-know acronym -- BSS (as in uninitialized data
> sections).  It was from an IBM assembly-language mnemonic by the same
> name, which stood for "Block Started by Symbol".

Oh, c'mon, now!  Any native speaker of English can decode this one
instantly on being told that the sequence is Code Segment, Data Segment,
and BSS which stands for ....  

Non-natives should ask the closest native for an instant answer.

		(;^)

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John Chambers <{adelie,ima,maynard,mit-eddie}!minya!{jc,root}> (617/484-6393)