Wintel

Directory

References

Discover

Periodical Cicada, Adult, Magicicada spp. Requires 17 years to complete development. Nymph splits its skin, and transforms into an adult. Feeds on sap of tree roots. Northern Illinois Brood. This brood is the largest emergence of cicadas anywhere

Why Do Some Cicadas Appear Only Every 17 Years?

Aphrodite. Greek mythology. Sculpture. Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love and beauty.

12 Greek Gods and Goddesses

Artist interpretation of a Space meteoroid impact. Meteor impact. Asteroid, End of the world, danger, destruction, dinosaur extinct, Judgement Day, Planet Earth, Doomsday Predictions, comet

10 Failed Doomsday Predictions

A Factory Interior, watercolor, pen and gray ink, graphite, and white goache on wove paper by unknown artist, c. 1871-91; in the Yale Center for British Art. Industrial Revolution England

Inventors and Inventions of the Industrial Revolution

After a perfect launch, spectators try to catch a last glimpse of Space Shuttle Columbia, barely visible at the top end of the twisted column of smoke.

7 Accidents and Disasters in Spaceflight History

solar eclipse, sun, moon, astronomy, space

How Do You Tell the Difference Between Total, Annular, Solar, and Lunar Eclipses?

Black widow spider

9 of the World’s Deadliest Spiders

Wintel

computer

Learn about this topic in these articles:

Intel Corporation

In Intel: Early products
…Intel chips, were dubbed “Wintel” machines and have dominated the market since their inception.
Read More

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

In Sun Microsystems, Inc.: Wintel competition
Despite its technical and financial strengths, the company faced growing competition in the 1990s from versions of so-called Wintel machines that used Microsoft Corporation’s high-end Windows NT operating system and Intel Corporation’s most-advanced Pentium microprocessors. Although Sun’s equipment, especially its
Read More