text segment

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

code segment
text segment

   <memory> ({Intel 8086} CS) The area of memory containing the
   {machine code} instructions of a {program}.  The code segment
   of a program may be shared between multiple processes running
   that code so long as none of them tries to modify it.

   {Unix}, confusingly, calls this the "text segment" and the
   area for uninitialied data, the {bss segment}.

   Initialised data is located in the {data segment}.

   (1996-12-21)