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A '''system platform''' is the basic technology of a [[computer]] system's [[hardware]] and [[software]] that defines how a computer is operated and determines what other kinds of software can be used.

==Examples==
*[[Wintel]], that is, Intel [[x86]] or compatible [[hardware]] and [[Windows]] [[operating system]].
*[[Lintel]], that is, Intel [[x86]] or compatible [[hardware]] and the [[Linux]] operating system.
*[[x86]] with other [[UNIX]] variants such as [[Berkeley Software Distribution|BSD]] variants.
*[[RISC]] processor based machines running UNIX variants (for example, Sun computers running the Solaris operating system) 
*[[Apple Macintosh|Macintosh]], custom [[Apple Computer]] hardware and [[MacOS]] operating system.
*Old [[home computer]] microcomputers.
*A [[mainframe]] with its custom operating system, say an [[International Business Machines|IBM]] [[System/360]].
*[[Supercomputer]] architectures
*[[Cluster computing]]

==See Also==
*[[Computing]]

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====References====
* Adapted from the [[Wikipedia]] article, "System_platform" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_platform http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_platform], used under the [[GNU Free Documentation License]]