This term is used to refer to a system that is intel-based hardware running Microsoft Windows.
Computers based on Intel Pentium, 80486, or earlier processors in that line (or similar processors from other manufacturers), running Microsoft Windows system software. The term "wintel" has largely replaced the older term "IBM-compatible".
term used to describe any PC platform that consists of an Intel (or compatible) microprocessor, and some version of Microsoft's Windows OS (95, 98, NT). Most often used to differentiate this platform from a Macintosh system or a system running an alternative operating system.
An x86 based system running some flavor of MS-Windows.
Slang term for any personal computer which uses the Microsoft Windows operating system and any Intel-compatible processor.
The common term for computers using Intel microprocessors and running Windows. Thus Windows/Intel becomes Wintel. Often this is used as a slur towards...
Contraction of Windows and Intel. The hardware and software combination of an Intel CPU running Microsoft Windows. Often used with the word "platform" in opposition to the UNIX or Macintosh platforms. Sometimes used in a derogatory sense to connote the monopoly powers that Intel and Microsoft yield.
The majority of computers today run the Wintel combination; the Windows operating systems and Intel processors.
A modern acronym for a computer system containing an Intel microprocessor and a Microsoft Windows operating system.
An abbreviation for Windows/Intel, the platform used by most computer users. Wintel refers to a computer running a version of Microsoft Windows running on an Intel processor.
the dominant PC platform, using MS-Windows software and running on computers with Intel processors, IBM-compatible.
Industry term for personal computers based on the Intel microprocessor and one of the Windows operating systems from Microsoft.
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).
