computer A computer which can use hardware and software designed for the
IBM PC (or, less often, IBM
mainframes).
This was once a key phrase in marketing a new PC
clone but now in 1998 is rarely used, the non-IBM
wintel personal computer manufacturers such as Compaq,
Dell and
Gateway 2000 and OS vendor
Microsoft having taken control of the market, marginalising IBM.
(1998-07-30)