Failsoft
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Supporting graceful degradation, so that a partial failure does not bring down the entire system. dated, not-comparable
"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 […]"
Example
More 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 […]"
Etymology
From fail + soft.
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