Wintel
jargon, architecture
A term describing any computer platform consisting of some version of Microsoft Windows running on an Intel 80×86 processor or compatible.
Despite the dominance of the wintel platform, in its many forms, from MS-DOS on an Intel 8088 to Windows 2000 on a Pentium II Xeon, there are many “non-wintel” platforms in use. These include Acorn, Amiga, Apple, ARM, Atari, A\Box, Be, Network Computer, OS/2, PowerPC, Psion, Linux and all other Unix systems.
Convergence International (http://convergence.org/).
(1999-09-15)
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