21st September 2005, 4:11 PM
Backwards compatible with what? It depends on the computer. Current computers aren't compatible with much much older models that used ISA style slots, for example. They do still share the same basic architecture though.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)