* Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> [120509 19:54]: [..] > Way back in the stone age, there was a guy that released a curve for > electronics life. The failure rate is high at the beginning, especially > for the first few minutes, then falls to about nothing, then after > several years it goes back up again. At the beginning of the curve, the > thought was it could be a bad solder job, bad components or some other > problem. At the other end was just when age kicked in. Sweat spot is > in the middle.
C. Gordon Bell has that curve in his book "Computer Engineering." Available online at: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/gbell/Computer_Engineering/index.html for HTML and: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/gbell/CGB%20Files/Computer%20Engineering%207809%20c.pdf for the PDF. Todd
