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When making sophisticated big projects, usually weighting many considerations, not just architecture.

Even more, some considerations could have more weight then architecture for particular case.

Examples are good compiler/libs/frameworks, some specific software, good support, experience on similar contracts, big number of professionals with military clearance.

That's why some long time IBM won most govt contracts on supercomputers.

But once IBM decided, govt is not interest enough client and after that moment, most contracts won by Intel.

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Also in Intel case at 8086 years, very important was large number of support chips, greatly surpass any concurrent.

Examples was video chips, io chips, MMU, numerical coprocessor.

At that time (8086) Intel produced even RAM and ROM chips, so govt could buy all from one contractor, and this is also good in some cases.