From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 12161 invoked from network); 12 Jun 2023 23:57:19 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (2600:3c01:e000:146::1) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 12 Jun 2023 23:57:19 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECFB641469; Tue, 13 Jun 2023 09:57:17 +1000 (AEST) Received: from lax.lemis.com (www.lemis.com [45.32.70.18]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20BDB40D34 for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2023 09:57:10 +1000 (AEST) Received: from eureka.lemis.com (121-200-11-253.79c80b.mel.nbn.aussiebb.net [121.200.11.253]) by lax.lemis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74993280C9; Mon, 12 Jun 2023 23:57:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eureka.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id C48262635B9; Tue, 13 Jun 2023 09:57:08 +1000 (AEST) Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2023 09:57:08 +1000 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Clem Cole Message-ID: <20230612235708.GI83871@eureka.lemis.com> References: <20230612213912.mywv5znz66pk3n5q@illithid> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="+Z7/5fzWRHDJ0o7Q" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: LEMIS, 29 Stones Road, Dereel, VIC, Australia Phone: +61-3-5309-0418 Mobile: +61-490-494-038. Use only as instructed. WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.1 (2016-04-27) Message-ID-Hash: MSRUNNMJNSFVEMIQRAAXSCJH7LUN766S X-Message-ID-Hash: MSRUNNMJNSFVEMIQRAAXSCJH7LUN766S X-MailFrom: grog@lemis.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: COFF X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [COFF] Weedhopper? (was: crt0 -- what's in that name?) List-Id: Computer Old Farts Forum Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: --+Z7/5fzWRHDJ0o7Q Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Monday, 12 June 2023 at 18:39:32 -0400, Clem Cole wrote: > On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 5:39=E2=80=AFPM G. Branden Robinson wrote: > >> It's an ill wind that blows a Fortran runtime using the same convention. > > Be careful there, weedhopper ... Now there's a word I have never heard before. Neither have my dictionaries, and Google gets sidetracked. What's the meaning and the background? On the other hand, I have heard of BSS and BES. It was in the DDP-516 (basis for the IMP) assembler. Is that how it found its way into Unix? Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA.php --+Z7/5fzWRHDJ0o7Q Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iEYEARECAAYFAmSHsNQACgkQIubykFB6QiOYdQCbBDYIwTkV4kdW5ttaz0gvhxQc B8oAn2UQ73JtMOLM7gDr1w7MhJy+qf5k =AsK5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --+Z7/5fzWRHDJ0o7Q--