Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!ima!minya!jc From: jc@minya.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: UNIX NAME ABBREVIATIONS Message-ID: <415@minya.UUCP> Date: Wed, 25-Nov-87 22:47:21 EST Article-I.D.: minya.415 Posted: Wed Nov 25 22:47:21 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 29-Nov-87 02:33:08 EST References: <10376@brl-adm.ARPA> <16550@topaz.rutgers.edu> <388@cogen.UUCP> <19267@amdcad.AMD.COM> Organization: home Lines: 14 Summary: y > 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. (;^) -- John Chambers <{adelie,ima,maynard,mit-eddie}!minya!{jc,root}> (617/484-6393)