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• hysterical reasons: (also `hysterical raisins') n. A variant on the stock phrase "for historical reaso
  indicating specifically that something must be done in some stupid way for backwards compatibility, and moreover that the feature it must be compatible with was the result of a bad design in the first place....
• Nothing is 100% certain, bug free or IBM compatible.
• bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
  one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....
• bug-for-bug compatible n. Same as bug-compatible, with the additional implication that much tedious effort went into ensuring that each (known) bug was replicated.
• green lightning: [IBM] n. 1. Apparently random flashing streaks on the face of 3278-9 terminals while a new symbol set is being downloaded.
  This hardware bug was left deliberately unfixed, as some genius within IBM suggested it would let the user know that `something is happening'....
• green lightning n. [IBM] 1. Apparently random flashing streaks on the face of 3278-9 terminals while a new symbol set is being downloaded.
  This hardware bug was left deliberately unfixed, as some genius within IBM suggested it would let the user know that `something is happening'....
• The net result is a system that is not only binary compatible with 4.
  3 BSD, but is even bug for bug compatible in almost all features....
• bug-compatible adj. [common] Said of a design or revision that has been badly compromised by a requirement to be compatible with fossils or misfeatures in other programs or (esp.
  ) previous releases of itself. "MS-DOS 2.0 used \ as a path separator to be bug-compatible with some cretin's choice of / as an option character in 1....
• bug-compatible: adj. Said of a design or revision that has been badly compromised by a requirement to be compatible with {fossil}s or {misfeature}s in other programs or (esp.
  ) previous releases of itself. "MS-DOS 2.0 used \ as a path separator to be bug-compatible with some cretin's choice of / as an option character in 1....