[arch-general] A universal Operating System API - why don't we have it?

[sherryhowell50 at gmail.com]

I think it's because computers develop too quickly to have it.  Some of
the other things you mention such as building materials have been around
for years, even centuries, and are the way they are going to be.  I
think if someone developed a bright new way of creating aluminum ingots
for instance, that the aluminum industry would be thrown into chaos
because some of the "old way of doing it" wouldn't fit, just in the way
the computer industry is now.  When the computer industry settles down
and quits  developing so quickly then it will have a certain accepted
way of doing things too.  Of course then it won't be nearly as
interesting, and I for one, if I'm still around by that point, will have
to find something else to tinker with.