I really messed that one up. IBM senior management regarded the desktop PC manufactured by its own Boca Raton division as a toy. What IBM missed (with all its

I really messed that one up. IBM senior management regarded the desktop PC manufactured by its own Boca Raton division as a toy. What IBM missed (with all its big-systems hubris) was the competitive threat that arose when it gave Intel and Microsoft a vehicle by which to seize the future of mass computing when they got to supply the key inner parts for the PC. "Wintel" was intended as a shorthand reference to the Intel/Microsoft teaming but it was obviously a poorly chosen term to refer to the early 1980s era, when Windows didn't even exist.