Quote Originally Posted by FireXtol View Post
Perhaps on "Wintel" platforms(that term didn't come into existence for no reason)
Yeah, the term didn't come into existence for no reason, but it didn't come into existence for the reason you suggested. The term arose from the Motorola/Apple vs Intel/Windows competition. Apple fanatics needed a name for the competition. In more recent ads, the term PC was used, but PC just meant Personal Computer, which an Apple was. They needed a name that specifically targeted MS OSs running on Intel architecture to contrast with the Motorola architecture that Apple OS ran on. At the time, the heated competition was as much between who had the faster processor as it was between the OS. Therefore, they weren't ONLY comparing Mac to Windows, they were also comparing Motorola to Intel. Therefore, they came up with Wintel as a name for the competition. The only other name they used commonly was Windoze, but that was generally used by a certain subset of the culture, while Wintel was the 'official' name for the competition.

Of course, Apple eventually moved to the x86 processor, as well, which removed the CPU competition, and PC has generally become a term for Windows OS in general, but not back in the day.