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} manufacturerSSuch aS {Compaq}, {Dell} and {Gateway 2000} and OS vendor {MicroSoft} having taken control of the market, marginaliSing IBM. (1998-07-30)