backward-compatible

backward-compatible definition - telecom
Referring to something (e.g., a device, machine, system, or program) that can be used with or is interoperable with an earlier generation, model, or version.

Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary Copyright © 2008 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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