Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!Paul_L_Schauble From: Paul_L_Schauble@cup.portal.com Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Definition of Fault Tolerant Architectures Message-ID: <8209@cup.portal.com> Date: 17 Aug 88 04:06:57 GMT References: <433@otc.oz> <2656@hubcap.UUCP> Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 6 XPortal-User-Id: 1.1001.3295 A system is loosely coupled if it can 'easily' be configured into two syste running separate programs. Frequently, normal operation of a loosely coupled system is as two separate systems, one of which can fail without disrupting the other. --PLS