1997

News 1997-04-01 April Germany's largest UNIX magazine iX publishes an April fools article about running Linux on the Nintendo 64. Initially promotion for the Linux/MIPS project and just good fun the article results in inquiries about Linux for N64 for several years. 1997-05-12 Silicon Graphics, Inc. announces H1 and H2. The two processors are supposed to become successors of the R12000. 1997-08-04 Silicon Graphics cancels the H1 and H2 projects again. External links http://www.heise.de/ix Homepage of iX http://www.heise.de/ix/artikel/E/1997/04/036/ iX April fools article http://www.heise.de/ix/artikel/1997/04/036/ The German original article