"failsoft" meaning in English

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  "pos": "adj",
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          "word": "fail-deadly"
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          "text": "1973, ACM Special Interest Group in Operating Systems, Fourth Symposium on Operating System Principles\nThe 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 […]"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1980, Autotestcon '80: 2-5 November 1980, Sheraton Washington, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1987, Mary E. S. Loomis, Data Base Book, page 387",
          "text": "The redundancy of components (computers, database management systems, operating systems, databases) inherent in a distributed environment makes the system failsoft […]",
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        "Supporting graceful degradation, so that a partial failure does not bring down the entire system."
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          "graceful degradation"
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          "failure",
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        "(computing, dated) Supporting graceful degradation, so that a partial failure does not bring down the entire system."
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  "etymology_text": "fail + soft",
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        },
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          "ref": "1980, Autotestcon '80: 2-5 November 1980, Sheraton Washington, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers",
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