1892 R. Kipling in (Weekly ed.) 25 Nov. 13/2 The railway..a platformless, regulationless necessity.
1975 10 Feb. 6/3 The oil company calls its new platform-less offshore unit a submerged production system (SPS).
1996 (Nexis) 10 June 10 With the advent of Sun's open system programming language Java, and the explosion of the Internet, there is a major drive towards making systems irrelevant, and platformless software delivery at a mouse click is the obvious result.