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12 years isn't that long. That's less time than XP was around to put it in perspective...


in consumer markets, do people design for lifetime over 12 years ? Because my feeling about consumer market that it's mostly crap, reliability wise.


Rarely. They want it to get through the European statutory warranty and that is it.

I have an oscilloscope built in 1976 by HP and it's showing no sign of any problems yet. I'd like to see more stuff like that on the shelves.




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