> x86 monopoly Wintel was a duopoly which had some power: Intel x86 has less dominance now partly because Windows has less dominance. There are some wonderful

> x86 monopoly Wintel was a duopoly which had some power: Intel x86 has less dominance now partly because Windows has less dominance. There are some wonderful papers on how game theory and monopoly plays out between Windows and Intel; and there's a great paper with analysis of why AMD struggled against the economic forces and why Microsoft preferred to team up with a dominant CPU manufacturer.