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Thanks.

I guess I should start preparing for a crash in about 25 days then (see
sig)....

REX BALLARD wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> 
> > >From http://slashdot.org/features/980722/0955225.shtml you state:
> >
> > System failures are an actuarial certainty (MTBF of Win 3.1 is 3 hours,
> > of 95 is 6 hours, of NT is 40 hours, and of Linux is 90 days - which
> > would you want to underwrite)
> 
> The MTBF for Windows 3.1 was based on a survey of 15 programmers in a
> "mosh pit" shop.  After interviewing each programmer for failure rates,
> I started tracking the failures and nature of work being done.  The
> MTBF for Win3.1 when used for actual programming was 1 hour.  The MTBF
> for Spec writing (word processing, spreadsheets, diagrams...) was 3 Hours.


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