DUSTY DECK

  

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DUSTY DECK

Specialty Definition: DUSTY DECK

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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). 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. Source: Jargon File.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: DUSTY DECK

Specialty definitions using "DUSTY DECK": crawling horror. (references)

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Anagrams: DUSTY DECK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-d-e-k-s-t-u-y"

-2 letters: deducts.

-3 letters: cutesy, cuteys, deduct, ducked, ducted, dusked, dusted, educts, sucked, tucked, tusked, yucked.

-4 letters: cuddy, cukes, cutes, cutey, decks, duces, ducks, ducky, ducts, dudes, duets, duked, dukes, dusky, dusty, dyked, dykes, educt, kytes, scute, skyed, stuck, study, styed, suety, teddy, tsked, tucks, tykes, yeuks, yucks.

-5 letters: cuds, cued, cues, cuke, cusk, cute, cuts.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: DUSTY DECK


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 55 53 54 59      44 45 43 4B

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01010101 01010011 01010100 01011001 00100000 01000100 01000101 01000011 01001011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#85 &#83 &#84 &#89 &#32 &#68 &#69 &#67 &#75

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0055 0053 0054 0059      0044 0045 0043 004B

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3855535459238393745

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