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dusty deck

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.