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From: EPRF@SNYCENVM.BITNET (Peter Flass)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Bootstrap
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Date: 17 May 88 17:03:10 GMT
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>By the way, who can tell me what this quote from VMS INTERNALS AND DATA
>STRUCTURES says?
>
>24. Bootstrap Procedures
>
>        ante mare et terras et quod tegit omnia caelum unus erat toto
>        naturae vultus in orbe, quem dixere Chaos
>
>           - Ovid, *Metamorphoses*

<VERY roughly>
         Before the sea and the lands and the heavens which cover all
         there was one appearance of nature in the universe,
         which is called Chaos

    - Pete