On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:47:13 -0400, Warp wrote:

> Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> http://www.bash.org/?741630
> 
>   I have heard or rumors of really, really old mainframes or other such
> servers which have an uptime of something like 30 years and nobody dares
> to turn them off because they might not boot up anymore, and there
> aren't any people who would still have the knowledge to fix them. I
> don't know if these rumors have any veracity, though.

There is a story that's been around about a NetWare server that was in a 
wiring closet that got completely closed up - no more door.  They didn't 
even realize it was there, just chugging along.  I think the uptime was 
something like 8 years, which for a PC server isn't bad....

Jim

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