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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)....
• crawling horror: n. Ancient crufty hardware or software that is kept obstinately alive by forces beyond the control of the hackers at a site.
  Like {dusty deck} or {gonkulator}, but connotes that the thing described is not just an irritation but an active menace to health and sanity....
• crawling horror n. Ancient crufty hardware or software that is kept obstinately alive by forces beyond the control of the hackers at a site.
  Like dusty deck or gonkulator, but connotes that the thing described is not just an irritation but an active menace to health and sanity....
• flag day: n. A software change that is neither forward- nor backward-compatible, and which is costly to make and costly to reverse.
  Can we install that without causing a flag day for all users?...
• droid: [from `android', SF terminology for a humanoid robot of essentially biological (as opposed to mechanical/electronic) construction] n.
  A person (esp. a low-level bureaucrat or service-business employee) exhibiting most of the following characteristic...
• crufty /kruhf'tee/ adj. [very common; origin unknow
  poss. from `crusty' or `cruddy'] 1. Poorly built, possibly over-complex....
• fossil: n. 1. In software, a misfeature that becomes understandable only in historical context, as a remnant of times past retained so as not to break compatibility.
  Example: the retention of octal as default base for string escapes in {C}, in spite of the better match of hexadecimal to ASCII and modern byte-addressable architectures....
• etrocomputing: /ret'-roh-k*m-pyoo'ting/ n. Refers to emulations of way-behind-the-state-of-the-art hardware or software, or implementations of never-was-state-of-the-a
  esp. if such implementations are elaborate practical jokes and/or parodies, written mostly for {hack value}, of more `serious' designs....
• moke test: n. 1. A rudimentary form of testing applied to electronic equipment following repair or reconfiguratio
  in which power is applied and the tester checks for sparks, smoke, or other dramatic signs of fundamental failure....