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hysterical reasons
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n. (also hysterical raisins ) A variant on the stock phrase for historical
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reasons , indicating specifically that something must be done in some stupid
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way for backwards compatibility, and moreover that the feature it must be
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compatible with was the result of a bad design in the first place. All IBM
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PC video adapters have to support MDA text mode for hysterical reasons.
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Compare bug-for-bug compatible.
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