Wintel

n. combination of the word "Intel" and the name of the operating system "Windows" (two products that are found in the large majority of personal computers)

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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wintel, combination of the word "Intel" and the name of the operating system "Windows" (two products that are found in the large majority of personal computers)

<jargon, architecture> A term describing any computer 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.
(1999-09-15)