Sometime in the early or mid 90s I had a FreeBSD box on 2.something - installed because I disliked unreliable flaky Windows so much - that passed a year uptime.

Sometime in the early or mid 90s I had a FreeBSD box on 2.something - installed because I disliked unreliable flaky Windows so much - that passed a year uptime. It was daily driver during that time, and often doing stuff while I was out at work or sleeping. It was cutting CDs, that had been simply bullet proof on Amiga, becoming so incredibly delicate and flaky on Windows that was one of the pushes to go BSD instead. I mostly kept on using the Amiga as most reliable option for that. The early 90's Sun's and SGI's didn't crash much either - though in a dev shop, sure we could push them to panic from time to time. The bigger iron just ran indefinitely, often until OS upgrade. :) Now obviously this talk is game related, but even my previous Amigas were more reliable for uptime if you stayed within Workbench - often passing into months - than DOS and Windows. The mostly undeserved reputation of Amiga for constant crashing was from games hitting the hardware direct and those guru messages instead of silent freeze or pretty random colours that other platforms gave. All were online, though not much web yet - mainly ftp, newsgroups and dial up BBS's.