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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
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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