[1] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

legacy system
     
         a computer system or application program which
        continues to be used because of the cost of replacing or
        redesigning it and often despite its poor competitiveness and
        compatibility with modern equivalents.  the implication is
        that the system is large, monolithic and difficult to modify.
     
        if legacy software only runs on antiquated hardware the cost
        of maintaining this may eventually outweigh the cost of
        replacing both the software and hardware unless some form of
        emulation or backward compatibility allows the software to
        run on new hardware.
     
        1998-08-09
     
     
see also:
application program hardware emulation backward compatibility 

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