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Fail Soft

Last Updated May 24, 2021 1:42 pm

(adj.) Used to describe systems that are designed to terminate any nonessential processing when there are hardware or software failures. Systems in fail soft mode are still able to provide partial operational capability.

Compare with deadlock.

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