[TUHS] What does `ld` stand for?

[John Levine via TUHS]

According to christopher fujino via TUHS <christopher.fujino at gmail.com>:
>Ahh, thank you Bakul for that reference. With the Levine context and the
>source from v2, it seems to me like it means Link eDitor.

I think it's more likely that it stood for "loader", even though it's a link
editor. The difference between the two was often fuzzy. For example, on the
TOPS-10 system around the same time, there was only a loader, which left the
loaded program in core (and I mean core.) You could start it or you could save
it to run later without subsequent linking or loading so the loader was in
practice a link editor too.

>Coincidentally, a
>friend had recommended that book for me to read, and I haven't gotten
>around to it yet. I really should!

Available at better online bookstores everywhere.