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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