NEWS, ETC.
September 2000
9/27/00 AMD
Officially Announces Obsolescence of K6-2 Desktop Processor Family.
9/21/00 Nvidia Moves To Networking
With X-Box Chip. Nvidia is designing a communications
companion chip for Microsoft's game console, among other things.
9/21/00 Win a Network prize
winners... I want thank everyone who participated in our survey
of Digest readers. It helped us with our advertising and thus
provided support to keep the Digest going. Larry
9/15/00 World's
Tiniest Web Server... At
about one square inch, and $39, NetMedia's SitePlayer is a real Ethernet
Web server...
9/14/00 Microsoft Releases
Windows Me.
9/14/00 Jobs
Takes Wraps off Mac OS X Beta. Somewhat coincidental timing,
I would say...
9/12/00 Plastic Transistors
Drive 64 x 64-pixel Display. Major step
towards low-cost, flexible displays made of plastic.
9/12/00 Off the Charts. Despite
the uncertain legality of the Napster online music-sharing service, the
number of people using it more than quadrupled in just five months.
9/10/00 Atlantis Docks with
Space Station
9/9/00 World Internet Population
Nears 300 Million.
9/7/00 CERN
scientists think they have spotted the Higgs particle, the most sought-after
prize in particle physics
August 2000
July 2000
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