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Encyclopedia: Wintel

Wintel is a term used to describe desktop computers and servers of the type commonly used in homes and businesses since the late 1980s (these are PC compatible computers running a version of Microsoft Windows). The portmanteau term is a concatenation of Windows (Microsoft's operating environment) and Intel (the originator of the x86 processor architecture used in many of today's PC compatible computers).

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John Walker (programmer)

integration and John was a big part of that - without personally buying into Wintel as some ultimate...

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Advanced Computing Environment

created hope that other hardware plaforms could more effectively compete with Wintel PCs . The belief... mass market for an alternative to the Wintel computing platform. The upstart platforms did not offer...

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IBM PC compatible

PC Compatible" becomes "Wintel" In the 1990s, IBM's influence on PC architecture became... machines as "PCs," while programmers and industry writers are increasingly using the term "Wintel architecture"("Wintel" being a contraction of "Windows" and "Intel") to refer to the combined...

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AIM alliance

AIM was an alliance formed in 1991 between Apple Computer, IBM and Motorola to create a new computing standard based on the PowerPC architecture. The stated goal of the alliance was to challenge the dominant Wintel computing platform with a new computer design and a next-generation operating...

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Platform (computing)

, and BREW for mobile phones. Hardware examples Wintel, that is, Intel x86 or compatible hardware and...

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Hiberno-English

verb 'to do' is used. This is most commonly used for intensification. This Wintel box suck, so it does...

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List of software engineering topics

Sun workstations Windows PCs (Wintel) Other Practices Communication Pair programming Refactoring...

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