[net.unix] BSS

dixon@ihuxa.UUCP (11/20/83)

I believe that BSS stands for Blank Storage Space. I do not know
when or where it originated. The C compiler/assembler for
the PDP 11 computers generate the directive .bss to specify the
start of uninitialized data.


D A Dixon     ihuxa!dixon   (ihuxl!dixon after 11/21)

steve@dartvax.UUCP (Steve Campbell) (11/20/83)

Way back in my -- I blush -- IBM 7094 assembler days, BSS stood for
Block Starting Symbol, a way to declare and name a block of storage.

				steve campbell
				...decvax!dartvax!steve

johnw@ihldt.UUCP (11/21/83)

	BSS, from what have heard, it stands for "block storage save"

					J P Wrycza

marc@aat.UUCP (11/21/83)

Probably "Block Storage Space", from the PDP-11 assembler.

marc@aat.UUCP (11/23/83)

BSS stands for "Billions of Similar Synonyms"


.....but I'd vote for "Block Starting with Symbol" as historically one of
the earliest.

ajs@hpfcla.UUCP (11/24/83)

#R:ihuxa:-33700:hpfcla:23200001:000:86
hpfcla!ajs    Nov 22 16:45:00 1983

Nonsense, BSS stands for "Blocked  Sequential  Storage" (cause I say so,
that's why).