where does bss come from?

[Mike McGann]

BSS goes back further than the CDC 6000 series. We used it on the CDC 1600
and 160 series. Actually it means 'Block Start Symbol' the label of the
statement refering to the first byte of a block of un-initialized storage.
Correspondingly there was a BES or 'Block Ending Symbol' where the label
refered to the last byte of the un-initialized block of storage.

Mike McGann
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