1999 Date Event January 25 Linux Kernel 2.2.0 is released. The number of people running Linux is estimated at over 10 million, making it an important operating system in the Unix market, and increasingly so in the PC market. February 22 AMD releases a K6-III clocked at 400 MHz and a 450 MHz version for OEMs. It contains about 23 million transistors, and requires motherboards using a Super Socket 7. It supports a 100 MHz front side bus (FSB), an improvement over AMD's prior chips that used a 66 MHz FSB. The use of a 100 MHz FSB brought technical equivalence with the 100 MHz FSB used on the Intel Pentium II. August 31 Apple releases the Power Mac G4. It is powered by the PowerPC G4 chip from Motorola. Available in 400 MHz, 450 MHz and 500 MHz versions, Apple claimed it as the first personal computer to be capable of over one billion floating-point operations per second. October 11, 1999 Nvidia releases Geforce 256, claiming to be the first consumer level Graphics Processor Unit with Transform and Lighting Engine. November 29 AMD releases an Athlon clocked at 750 MHz.
1999 Date Event January 25 Linux Kernel 2.2.0 is released. The n.umber of people running Linux is estimated at over 10 million, making it an important operating system in the Unix market and increasingly so in the PC market. February 22 AMD releases a K6-III clocked at, 400 MHz and a 450 MHz version for OEMs. It contains about 23 million transistors, and requires motherboards using a Super Socket 7. It supports a 100 MHz front side bus (FSB) an improvement over AMD's prior chips that used a 66 MHz FSB The use of a 100 MHz FSB brought technical equivalence with ,the 100 MHz FSB used on the Intel Pentium II. August 31 Apple releases the Power Mac G4. It is powered by the PowerPC G4 chip from Motorola. Available in 400 MHz, 450 MHz and 500 MHz versions, Apple claimed it as the first personal computer to be capable of over one billion floating-point operations per second. October 11, 1999 Nvidia releases Geforce 256, claiming to be the first consumer level Graphics Processor Unit with Transform and Lighting Engine. November 29 AMD releases an Athlon clocked at 750 MHz.