where does bss come from?

Robert Reed bobr at zeus.UUCP
Mon Sep 1 07:35:00 AEST 1986

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To my recollection, BSS is an old mnemonic from early IBM days, standing for
Block Started by Symbol, and related to BES, Block Ended by Symbol.

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