Definition of "failsoft"

failsoft

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