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If an [[operating system]] maintains a standard and compatible [[application binary interface]] (ABI) for a particular ISA, machine code will run on future implementations of that ISA and operating system. However, if an ISA supports running multiple operating systems, it does not guarantee that machine code for one operating system will run on another operating system, unless the first operating system supports running machine code built for the other operating system.
An ISA can be extended by adding instructions or other capabilities, or adding support for larger addresses and data values; an implementation of the extended ISA will still be able to execute [[machine code]] for versions of the ISA without those extensions. Machine code using those extensions will only run on implementations that support those extensions.
The binary compatibility that they provide makes ISAs one of the most fundamental abstractions in [[computing]].
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