Compatibility and Fragmentation in the AI Era

If you go far back enough in time, every new computer design had a new instruction set.Which, of course, was a pain!IBM 709 Front Panel - By ArnoldReinhold - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18267293When IBM introduced the 709 mainframe in 1958 as the successor to the popular (with a grand total of 123 systems sold in total!) 704 the new computer’s architecture was incompatible with its predecessor. Fortunately, by then high level languages - and FORTRAN cr...