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De - Pt| English Dictionary: Wintel | by the DICT Development Group |
| 2 results for Wintel | |
| From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
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Wintel n. Microsoft Windows plus Intel - the tacit alliance that dominated desktop computing in the 1990s. Now (1999) possibly on the verge of breaking up under pressure from {Linux}; see {Lintel}. | |
| From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
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wintel {platform} consisting of some version of {Microsoft Windows} running on an {Intel 80x86} 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://www.convergence.org/)}. (1999-09-15) | |
