386BSD 1.0

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386BSD 1.0
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Logging into a 386BSD 1.0 system
Type: theoretically bootable
Creator: William and Lynne Jolitz
Architecture: i386 theoretically portable
This Version: 1.0 (1994)
Date Released: 1994

Finally: It was stated at the outset, that this system would not be here, and at once, perfected. You cannot but plainly see that I have kept my word. But I now leave my cetological System standing thus unfinished, even as the great Cathedral of Cologne was left, with the crane still standing upon the top of the uncompleted tower. For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me from ever completing anything. This whole book is but a draught - nay, but the draught of a draught. Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience! Herman Melville, "Moby Dick", Chapter 32