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dusty deck: n. 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 esp. 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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