Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
backward compatibility
Chinese translation:
Traditional Chinese: 反向相容性(能力), Simplified Chinese: 向后兼容
English term
backward compatibility
As a developer, you need to be aware of backward compatibility issues on older devices—do you want to allow your application to run on all devices, or just those running newer software? (Google Inc.)
Preserving backward compatibility often requires that you drag historical baggage along, and in interpreted languages like PHP, this comes at a significant performance cost. (Dries Buytaert)
Developers and clients who strive for backward compatibility inevitably choose a "baseline browser" (say, Netscape 3) beyond which they will make no effort. (Digital Web Magazine)
| 4 +3 | Traditional Chinese: 反向相容性(能力), Simplified Chinese: 向后兼容 |
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Proposed translations
Traditional Chinese: 反向相容性(能力), Simplified Chinese: 向后兼容
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Note added at 23 hrs (2009-12-30 16:02:43 GMT)
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As the member win-win suggests, "回溯相容性" is also commonly used in Taiwan.
Definition from wiki Taiwan :
"向下相容（downward compatibility），又稱回溯相容（backward compatibility），在電腦中指在一個程式和/或函式庫更新到較新版本後，用舊版本程式創建的文檔或系統仍能被正常操作或使用，或在舊版本函式庫的基礎上開發的程式仍能正常編譯執行的情況。"
http://tinyurl.com/yfabs72
PS3 Backward Compatibility Cut in Europe The European version of Sony's PlayStation 3 will run only some of the games designed for the previous generation of the videogame machine -- a move designed to cut costs and speed up production. 2月28日消息，新力發言人表示，即將於3月23上市的歐洲版PS3可適用於較少數舊版的遊戲軟體，不如美、日版PS3遊戲機與舊的遊戲軟體相容的情況好。 據路透社報道，PS3遊戲機首先於2006年11月在日本和北美上市... (QualityTaiwan)
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