Seriously though, this seems to be due to happenstance (well, commercial interest motivating great continuous engineering effort), rather than by design (forward-thinking) though; unlike, say, IBM's Technology Independent Machine Interface of AS/400.
Seriously though, this seems to be due to happenstance (well, commercial interest motivating great continuous engineering effort), rather than by design (forward-thinking) though; unlike, say, IBM's Technology Independent Machine Interface of AS/400.