Editing IBM PC compatible (section)

=="IBM PC compatible" becomes "Wintel"==
During the 1990s, IBM's influence on PC architecture started to decline. "IBM PC compatible" becomes "Standard PC" in 1990s, and later "[[Advanced Configuration and Power Interface|ACPI]] PC" in 2000s. An IBM-brand PC became the exception rather than the rule. Instead of placing importance on compatibility with the IBM PC, vendors began to emphasize compatibility with [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]]. In 1993, a version of [[Windows NT]] was released that could operate on processors other than the [[x86]] set. While it required that applications be recompiled, which most developers did not do, its hardware independence was used for [[Silicon Graphics]] (SGI) x86 workstations–thanks to NT's [[Hardware abstraction layer]] (HAL), they could operate NT (and its vast application library){{Clarify|date=August 2011}}.

No mass-market personal computer hardware vendor dared to be incompatible with the latest version of Windows, and Microsoft's annual [[Windows Hardware Engineering Conference|WinHEC]] conferences provided a setting in which Microsoft could lobby for—and in some cases dictate—the pace and direction of the hardware of the PC industry. Microsoft and Intel had become so important to the ongoing development of PC hardware that industry writers began using the word [[Wintel]] to refer to the combined hardware-software system.

This terminology itself is becoming a misnomer, as Intel has lost absolute control over the direction of x86 hardware development with [[Advanced Micro Devices|AMD]]'s [[x86-64|AMD64]]. Additionally, non-Windows operating systems like [[macOS]] and [[Linux]] have established a presence on the x86 architecture.