<a class="bbcode_url" href="http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/03/epic-uptime-achievement-can-you-beat-16-years/" target="_blank">Source Link</a> (Since it's over a year old, intentionally left out of news section)<br><div class="quote-container"><span>Quote:</span>

<div class="quote-block"><b><span style="text-decoration:underline;">It's September 23, 1996. It's a Monday.</span></b> 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.<br><br>

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.<br><br>

Then it's down to work. Microsoft can keep its fancy GUIs and graphical server operating systems. <b>NetWare 3.12 is where it's at: bulletproof file and print sharing</b>. 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.<br><br><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><b><span style="font-size:24px;">Sixteen and a half years later,</span></b></span> INTEL's hard disks—a pair of full height 5.25 inch 800 MB Quantum SCSI devices—are making some disconcerting noises from their bearings, and you're tired of the complaints. It's time to turn off the old warhorse.</div>

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<br><a class="H-lightbox-open" href="http://www.overclock.net/content/type/61/id/1991776/"><img alt="" class="lightbox-enabled" data-id="1991776" data-type="61" src="http://www.overclock.net/content/type/61/id/1991776/width/500/height/1000/flags/LL" style="; width: 500px; height: 282px"></a><br><br><br><a class="bbcode_url" href="http://www.overclock.net/t/1485423/windows-7-64-stable-enough-for-you/0_50#post_22176753">Inspired by a discussion going on in another thread</a>, I dug up this old Ars article. This is pretty stinkin' ridiculous.<br><br>

We had a Netware 3.12 box that was up for over 2000 days (A bit over 6 years) but nothing like this. Netware 3.12 was as bulletproof an OS as there ever was. It didn't leak memory or any such foolishness. Gosh it was awesome.<br><br>

So, can anyone beat it?