At 2023-06-12T17:31:20-0400, Clem Cole wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 4:17 PM Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, 12 Jun 2023, Dan Cross wrote:
> > > The Unix tree shows it in 2nd Edition:
> > > https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V2/lib/crt0.s
> > > That would suggest it was more or less contemporaneous with C itself.
> >
> > I've always thought of it as "C run time stage 0".
> >
> crt - C RunTme.

It's an ill wind that blows a Fortran runtime using the same convention.

Regards,
Branden