Compatibility is the ability to connect things together and have them work, such as connecting a refrigerator to electrical power, a video recorder to a television, or a computer to a printer. Compatibility is an issue that is important in all branches...

Tying a product to another in order to reduce competition, e.g. through producing computer software usable only on a particular type of personal computer. See also: tying...

In technology, especially computing (irrespective of platform), a product is said to be backward compatible when it is able to take the place of an older product, by interoperating with products that were designed for the older...

Mark Barshop, the owner of a house in Bel Air, Calif., was faced with a familiar problem. He had a DMP model 1612 Command Processor central unit and three Security Command keypads, all of which dated back some 20 years. Although the...

In 3 dual-task Experiments, the relationship between primary-task response (R1) and secondary-task response (R2) was varied. In general, R1-left responses were faster when followed by the word one, and right responses were faster when followed by the word two. This backward-compatibility (BWC) effect indicated...

The PlayStation 3 going on sale in Europe next month will play only some of the games for its predecessor video game machine _ a move designed to cut costs and speed up production.Backward compatibility with PlayStation 2 has been billed as a major feature...

The European version of Sony's PlayStation 3 will run only some of the games designed for the previous generation of the video game machine _ a move designed to cut costs and speed up production.Backward compatibility with the PlayStation 2 was a highly touted feature...