1. A computer system, comprising: a processor; an operating system having a selected driver that interacts with a computing component; a plurality of application instructions, said instructions being in an intermediate language readable by an intermediate language compiler; a plurality of runtime instructions, said instructions being in an intermediate language readable by an intermediate language compiler; and an intermediate language compiler wherein said intermediate language compiler compiles the application instructions and the runtime instructions into instructions executable by the processor for interacting with the selected driver.