failsoft

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Etymology

fail +‎ soft (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Possibly modelled on fail-safe?”)

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failsoft (not comparable)

  1. (computing, dated) Supporting graceful degradation, so that a partial failure does not bring down the entire system.
    • 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
    • 1980, Autotestcon '80: 2-5 November 1980, Sheraton Washington, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers:
      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.
    • 1987, Mary E. S. Loomis, Data Base Book, page 387:
      The redundancy of components (computers, database management systems, operating systems, databases) inherent in a distributed environment makes the system failsoft […]

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