What does BSS stand for???

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From:  Dave Johnson <dbj.rice at rand-relay>

I don't really know where Unix got the letters "bss" from, but COMPASS,
the assembler for the CDC 6600 (and 7600 and Cyber 70 and Cyber 170 etc.),
has a pseudo-op named "bss" which allocates some amount of uninitialized
storage.  CDC claims that it means "Block Starting Symbol".

                                        Dave Johnson
                                        Dept. of Math Science
                                        Rice University
                                        dbj.rice at CSNet-Relay