LEGACY

n. inheritance, bequest; something handed down from one's ancestors

Legacy or legacies may refer to: BuildingsLegacy Tower, a skyscraper under construction in ChicagoLegacy Village, a shopping mall in Lyndhurst, Ohio
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Noun
1. (law) a gift of personal property by will
(synonym) bequest
(hypernym) gift
(classification) law, jurisprudence

(n.)
A gift of property by will, esp. of money or personal property; a bequest. Also Fig.; as, a legacy of dishonor or disease.
  

(n.)
A business with which one is intrusted by another; a commission; -- obsolete, except in the phrases last legacy, dying legacy, and the like.
  

legacy system

<jargon> A computer system or application program which continues to be used because of the cost of replacing or redesigning it and often despite its poor competitiveness and compatibility with modern equivalents. The implication is that the system is large, monolithic and difficult to modify.
If legacy software only runs on antiquated hardware the cost of maintaining this may eventually outweigh the cost of replacing both the software and hardware unless some form of emulation or backward compatibility allows the software to run on new hardware.
(1998-08-09)