From: utzoo!decvax!cwruecmp!honton Newsgroups: net.micro Title: hardware reliability Article-I.D.: cwruecmp.123 Posted: Thu Aug 19 16:11:17 1982 Received: Fri Aug 20 04:15:57 1982 In designing a microcomputer controller, the question of fault tolerance came up. Both hardware and software faults have to be tolerated. What hardware usually dies? What are some common detection and backup schemes? I'd appreciate any personal experiences concerning micro-computer failures, in particular, error-prone areas. Please reply to ..decvax!cwruecmp!honton . thanks, chas