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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: new A2088T Bridgeboard: TEST
Message-ID: <398@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 11 Sep 90 14:11:26 GMT
References: <3122@mindlink.UUCP>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <3122@mindlink.UUCP> a218@mindlink.UUCP (Charlie Gibbs) writes:
>In article <12543@wehi.dn.mu.oz> BAXTER_A@wehi.dn.mu.oz writes:
>
>>In article <105767@convex.convex.com>, swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren)
>>writes:
>>> In article <2133@wn1.sci.kun.nl> vlsi4@erato.cs.kun.nl writes:
>>>>[Because of many requests:]
>>>>         New PC-XT Bridgeboard A2088T from Commodore
>>>         [...many interesting and useful details deleted...]
>>>>V20-CPU are deviced as square PLCC-elements. The hardware is free of
>>>>childrens' diseases
>>>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>                              [...]
>>> Is this the German phrase for "bugs"?   ;^)

Well, I don't know the English phrase either, but I can explain
the meaning of the German word "Kinderkrankheiten":
There we sum up all the problems in the younger status of any being
or product. Example are the measles. When you have outgrown these
instable beginning times, the thing is regarded to stay stable until
it gets really old and gets the problems from this source.

Is there also known the related term "bathtub curve" (or similar)?
It tries to show the normal high error rate after shipping a technical
product, then a rather long time of near error-free operation and in
the end again increasing error rate because of old parts.

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Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to  \\  Only my personal opinions... 
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