On Sat, 16 May 1998 19:30:09 -0700  Ted Lemon wrote:

> 
> > BTW, since we obviously have to freeze things now at 1.2.1, and the
> > planned lifetime of this system is 10 years, will anybody be around
> > to answer NetBSD 1.2.1 questions in 2010?  :)
> 
> 1.2.1?   Are you *mad*?
> 
> Don't you mean 1.3.1?   In any case, fond as I am of NetBSD, I'm not
> sure I believe in a 10-year uptime...   Although I'll be interested to
> see... :')

The quoted message had the following date line:

	Date: Thu, 04 Dec 1997 15:09:31 -0500

1.3 didn't get out until the very end of December 1998.  1.2.1
was indeed the "current" release at the time.

And they may have watchdog timers, or a yearly cron job to do a
"shutdown -r now" :-).

Simon.