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[Bill, KD0HG]

Lest we overlook the most bulletproof OS ever developed..
Novell Netware, RIP.

We had Netware servers running for years without the need to reboot or do anything with them.

I heard one of our corporate locations had a Pentium Pro Netware office server running continuously for 10 years. When they went to update it no one could find it; it was found in what used to be a small closet that had been drywalled over.

IIRC, the US Postal Service is still on Novell.

Beat *that*, Windows.

[Steve - WB3HUZ]

Netware kinda lives on in OES. Comparing a specialty network operating system like Netware to general purpose operating systems is not really a legitimate comparison. Most embedded controller OSes NEVER crash. But you wouldn't want to compare them to Windows or Linux either.

[Bill, KD0HG]

True, Steve..I can't forget that I never had to put up with as much BS with Novell than I've had to do with Microsoft and their servers. Not to mention Novell had a much smaller memory and processor footprint than Microsoft's stuff. Sigh...

-Bill, CNA

[Steve - WB3HUZ]

True that. You can thank the OS and the well behaved programs running on it for that stability.

[Opcom]

Lest we overlook the most bulletproof OS ever developed..
Novell Netware, RIP.

We had Netware servers running for years without the need to reboot or do anything with them.

I heard one of our corporate locations had a Pentium Pro Netware office server running continuously for 10 years. When they went to update it no one could find it; it was found in what used to be a small closet that had been drywalled over.

IIRC, the US Postal Service is still on Novell.

Beat *that*, Windows.

VMS is still alive, where the cost is justified, and has uptime measured in decades. That story sounds alot like the true Scottish Railyard story, except it was a VAX drywalled in, with no ventilation and a layer of dust on it. Was the Novell O/S subject to hackers at any time? My money is on VMS for bulletproof.

[K6JEK]

VMS is still alive, where the cost is justified, and has uptime measured in decades. That story sounds alot like the true Scottish Railyard story, except it was a VAX drywalled in, with no ventilation and a layer of dust on it. Was the Novell O/S subject to hackers at any time? My money is on VMS for bulletproof.

Back when I was working for Four-Phase Systems we found one of our servers installed in a stall in the men's room.  That's not the same as being dry walled in but it deserves some credit for surviving in a gaseous environment.