dusty deck
Old software (especially applications) which one is obliged to remain compatible
with, or to maintain. DP types call this "legacy code", a term hackers consider
smarmy and excessively reverent. The term implies that the software in question
is a holdover from card-punch days. Used especially when referring to old
scientific and number crunching software, much of which was written in Fortran
and very poorly documented but is believed to be too expensive to replace. See
fossil; compare crawling horror.
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