Wintel
<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 (http://www.convergence.org/).
