where does bss come from?

[Robert S. Logan]

The first time I saw bss was in the IBM 7090/7094 macro assembler:
BSS (block started by symbol) reserved a block of consecutive words
and (optionaly) defined a symbol pointing to the first word. There
was also a BES (block ended by symbol) op. I don't have a manual,
but I suspect there was a BSS in the SHARE assembler for the 709,
one of the first real assemblers.
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Robert S. Logan
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