legacy 【legacy】 A computer software that has been used for a long time in a company and is expensive and difficult to maintain, but is indispensable to the business. (Daijirin, 3rd ed.)
Legacy formats continue to be used because of the existence of legacy clients that can only input and output in that (computer) format. Legacy format example: book.
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