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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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Advanced Computing Environment
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