Before it appeared, different computers from different manufacturers were mostly incompatible with each other.

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By this I mean the simultaneous encouragement of parallel strands of thought even when they are incompatible with each other.

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Some of the medications were incompatible with each other.

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Eliminating the interface would be a step back to the old computer industry, where each machine had a unique interface and was incompatible with other computers.

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