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Meanings of backward-compatible in English

Russian
обратная совместимость
Portuguese
compatibilidade
Spanish
retrocompatibilidad
Catalan
retrocompatibilitat

Property of a system, product, or technology that allows for interoperability with an older legacy system, or with input designed for such a system, especially in telecommunications and computing.

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    обратная совместимость
    Usage of backward-compatible in English
    1
    Maintenance-level upgrades with patches for JFS and JFS2 may not be backward-compatible.
    Backup & recovery
    2
    USB 2.0 ports are backward-compatible with USB 1.1 cabling and devices.
    Apple training series: mac os x support essentials v10.6
    3
    Also, you should keep MBR drives unmodified if you intend to keep those drives backward-compatible with generic PCs or peripherals.
    Apple training series: mac os x support essentials v10.6
    4
    Windows 95 was, and Windows 98 is, crufty because they have to be backward-compatible with older Microsoft OSes.
    In the beginning ...was the command line