Wintel

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Under the slogan Wintel a category of was mainly in the 1990s and 2000s, personal computer systems together, the common feature is a Windows - OS have that on a hardware with a microprocessor from Intel running. More generalized computers with an Intel-compatible x86 processor base were also understood by other manufacturers such as AMD in particular .

The overall market for desktop and notebook computers at that time was roughly divided into three such categories:

  1. Wintel calculator, as described,
  2. Macs with PowerPC from Apple ,
  3. Linux computers under various Linux distributions .

history

The microprocessor was invented in the mid-1970s, and useful computers with it came on the market at the end of the decade. They were initially used primarily at universities and in technology-competent industries. Around 1980, the first devices were used in offices and other more remote technology applications. The 8-bit architecture available at the time did not yet have an industry standard, but rather a proliferation of various approaches.

In 1981 the IBM PC came out and emerged as the industry standard, especially after various other manufacturers offered compatible ones. This was already a step towards 16-bit architecture . It wasn't until a few years later that Microsoft added the Windows operating system to complete the Wintel concept. In the years that followed, development went to 32- and 64-bit systems and to further generations of the Windows operating system.

From the 2010s, the term Wintel is used almost exclusively historically.

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