On 07/07/2011 03:16 PM, Mike the Elder wrote:

> I, too, am often annoyed with the inappropriate over-usage of the term
> "Classic".  "Classic Coke" was the one that really got to me.

In computing, "classic" is occasionally used to mean the same thing as 
"legacy". (AKA "the old crap we still have to support".)

For example, "in classic RISC designs, it worked like <X>, but in our 
new, modern design, it works like <Y>".

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