Wintel

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Wintel

Usage: n.

See Also: Lintel

Wintel: n.

Microsoft Windows plus Intel -- the tacit alliance that dominated desktop computing in the 1990s. After 1999 it began to break up under pressure from Linux; see Lintel.

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Source: Wintel, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7.

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