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).