Reluctantly agree. The total product is what matters in the marketplace, and the silicon itself, and arguably even the OS, together are relatively minor factors

Reluctantly agree. The total product is what matters in the marketplace, and the silicon itself, and arguably even the OS, together are relatively minor factors. Sometimes I wonder if there was a point in time - where real history switches to a fantasy history - in which a non-pc clone paradigm ends up winning that war. If so what was the earliest point this could have happened, and would it even matter since market forces would ultimately pull any alternate success in the direction of an informally standards-federated clone paradigm anyway.