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The server had one job: serve files and print. It did that with an uptime measured in years , not days. There are legends of NetWare 3.12 servers running for 5+ years without a reboot. You didn't "patch Tuesday" NetWare. You loaded a driver, unloaded it, and moved on.
: There’s a specific satisfaction in seeing SERVER.EXE initialize and watching the volumes mount. novell netware 3.12
NetWare 3.12 was remarkably robust for its time but relied heavily on physical security Chalmers Publication Library Good old Novell Netware. - Facebook The server had one job: serve files and print
By 1998, the writing was on the wall: