failsoft

English

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?”)

Adjective

failsoft (not comparable)

(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, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Autotestcon '80: 2-5 November 1980, Sheraton Washington
  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 […]

Anagrams

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单词	failsoft
释义	failsoft English 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?”) Adjective failsoft (not comparable) (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, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Autotestcon '80: 2-5 November 1980, Sheraton Washington 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 […] Anagrams tails off
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