Tim Wescott wrote:

Anybody here know?

It couldn't have anything to do with preventing programs from being
portable from one brand of machine to another, of course.

You have to wonder on that but I have a feeling in the pre-cad cam days creating a code
that could do common tasks easily was a selling feature.

Wes

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