Wintel

from Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)

Wintel
 n.

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

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

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://convergence.org/).

   (1999-09-15)