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