Hardware Companies announce support for Pentium III Processor

Hardware Companies announce support for Pentium III Processor is another February 1999 item worth filing away, because the small notices often tell you where the industry is heading next.

The names attached here include PERMEDIA, Streaming SIMD, Intel Pentium III, DirectX, and OpenGL. The platform angle centers on PC. The hook is OpenGL. The hard numbers include 6.1, The 3, and Version 6.

The hardware race is getting mean now. Every new board, driver, chip, and oddball peripheral is trying to be the thing that makes your rig feel less old by next week.