Given the independent software vendor model, you were going to end up with a very small number of mass market operating systems/platforms one way or the other.

Given the independent software vendor model, you were going to end up with a very small number of mass market operating systems/platforms one way or the other. It was certainly happening in the large commercial computer system space. In fact, the somewhat surprise is that Microsoft didn't become even more dominant. A lot of people certainly expected it to.