where does bss come from?

[Parris Hughes]

In article <161 at nbc1.UUCP>, abs at nbc1.UUCP writes:
> > In article <2627 at burdvax.UUCP> eric at burdvax.UUCP (Eric Marshall) writes:
> > >	Could someone please tell me where the name BSS comes from.
> > >The comments in /usr/include/a.out.h says that it is uninitialized
> > >data. What's the connection?
> > >
> > The name BSS comes from an assembly pseudo-operator on the IBM 7090
> > machine, which stands for "Block Started by Symbol".
> > Dennis Chen @ Olivetti ATC
> > {allegra, fortune, glacier, hplabs, idi, ihnp4, sun}!oliveb!dchen
> 
> I always thought it meant "blank storage space".
> Andrew Siegel, N2CN		NBC Computer Imaging, New York, NY
> philabs!nbc1!abs		(212)664-5776

DAP-16 Assembly on the OLD Honeywell 1648A used the same pseudo-op, and I
believe it was "block storage space"

parris			....gatech!itcatl!parris