Meaning of failsoft | Babel Free

Definitions

Supporting graceful degradation, so that a partial failure does not bring down the entire system.

dated, not-comparable

Examples

“1973, ACM Special Interest⟳ Group in Operating Systems, Fourth Symposium on Operating System Principles The second phase of the executive development proceeded through two steps as stated in Section 2. First, a failsoft executive was developed providing automatic failure detection and recovery […]”

“After automatic self-test, an important follow-on step in improving test⟳ set⟳ availability is the incorporation of failsoft features in the control⟳ software in conjunction with hardware capabilities.”

“The redundancy of components (computers, database management systems, operating systems, databases) inherent in a distributed environment makes the system failsoft […]”

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