Bugcompatible

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From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  bug-compatible adj. [common] Said of a design or revision that has been
     badly compromised by a requirement to be compatible with {fossil}s or
     {misfeature}s in other programs or (esp.) 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."
  


  

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

  bug-compatible
       
          Said of a design or revision that has been badly compromised
          by a requirement to be compatible with {fossil}s or
          {misfeature}s 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}]