The plucky little server that could
I used to run Novell 3.12 and was licensed to sell and install it a long long time ago. A great operating system for a dedicated server!
Here is one server status screen that shows the kind of uptime you can expect when you choose your hardware and software correctly:
That is 6030 days, 5 hours and 21 minutes, nineteen seconds!
Sixteen years of continuous operation.
More at Ars Technica
here:
Epic uptime achievement unlocked. Can you beat 16 years?
It's September 23, 1996. It's a Monday. The Macarena is pumping out of the office radio, mid-way through its 14 week run at the top of the Billboard Hot 100, doing little to improve the usual Monday gloom.
Easing yourself into the week, you idly thumb through a magazine, and read about Windows NT 4.0, released just a couple of months previous. You wonder to yourself whether Microsoft's hot new operating system might finally be worth using.
Then it's down to work. Microsoft can keep its fancy GUIs and graphical server operating systems. NetWare 3.12 is where it's at: bulletproof file and print sharing. The server, named INTEL after its process, needs an update, so you install it and reboot. It comes up fine, so you get on with the rest of your day.
And also from Ars Technica --
the user forum:
So long to a valiant companion
Bringing her down tomorrow. This system went online before I graduated high school. I get to take her home.
And one more comment from the Admin:
It really sounds like a car dragging its muffler now, and I'm ready to go home.
Will document the machine tomorrow. There's so much dust in the case you can't see *any* single component. It's like a bird's nest.
I would have kept it running but I was getting complaints about the noise.
Love the retro messages -- Connection terminated.
Some fun user comments...
Posted by DaveH at March 31, 2013 9:30 PM