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 (especially) 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 1.0." [Jargon File]

In addition suitable contents:
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