Ancient hardware or software especially that which was never particularly appealing even when new and is now devoid of any merit save its use as an example of obsolescence.
He fired up his old laptop and, behold, OS2/Warp struggled into life for the first time since 1994. This venerable piece of crustware filled the screen with its red and white startup screen proclaiming "All rights reserved". Ironic since nobody wanted it then and they sure as hell didn't want it now.
by dr_D February 10, 2009
Hastily written software with irregular, flaky, outer edges that feel as though they may crumble at touch.
The program we found on our professor's website was total crustware. It's spindly protuberances of unmanaged dependencies barely adhered to anything – hurling a volley of frightening error messages at the slightest interaction with it's pixelated icons.
by laserco November 29, 2017