Failsoft

Quick meaning: Failsoft is an adjective meaning (computing, dated) Supporting graceful degradation, so that a partial failure does not bring down the entire system.

Meaning

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

Example Sentences

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

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.

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 […]

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