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It's good to hear tales being spun of a post-Wintel world where chips are bought because of their characteristics rather than financial and legal pressure. 

Sometimes tales come true. Twenty five years ago Andy Grove used to come over and tell the tale of how the entrenched x86 software base would make the 80386 the dominant computer processor.

 Somehow, the mere telling of the tale gave it a force which made it more likely to come true. And it did.

 Twenty years ago Sir Robin Saxby said ARM would be bigger than Intel.

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