Definition of "failsoft" in Englisch

adjective

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 […]