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FAP

FAP (FORTRAN Assembly Program) was a macro assembler for the IBM 704, 709, 7090, and 7094 computers.

Its pseudo-operation BSS, used to reserve menory, is the origin of the BSS[?] section still used today for space in memory that is reserved, but does not have to be saved in the executable image.

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http://www.frobenius.com/fap.htm
bss (http://www.ee.byu.edu/unix-faq/subsubsection3_3_3_9)

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