I also did that once, about the same timeframe, specifically to preserve an uptime. I think the cult of runtime came about simply because it was impressive tha

I also did that once, about the same timeframe, specifically to preserve an uptime. I think the cult of runtime came about simply because it was impressive that a personal computer could stay running for more than a few days when most of the world ran Win95. And because development cycles were longer and there weren't a lot of network threats.