Computing Platform - Hardware Examples

Hardware Examples

Ordered roughly, from more common types to less common types:

  • Commodity computing platforms
    • Wintel, that is, Intel x86 or compatible personal computer hardware with Windows operating system
    • ARM architecture used in mobile devices
      • Gumstix full function miniature computers with Linux
    • x86 with Unix-like systems such as BSD variants
    • CP/M computers based on the S-100 bus, maybe the earliest microcomputer platform
  • Video game consoles, any variety
  • Macintosh, custom Apple Computer hardware and Mac OS operating system, now migrated to x86
    • Newton devices running the Newton OS, also from Apple
  • Apple Pippin, a Multimedia player platform for video game console development
  • RISC processor based machines running Unix variants
    • SPARC architecture computers running Solaris operating systems
    • DEC Alpha cluster running OpenVMS
  • Midrange computers with their custom operating systems, such as IBM OS/400
  • Mainframe computers with their custom operating systems, such as IBM z/OS
  • Supercomputer architectures

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