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What happened in history on this day: December 17?
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Personal Computer history:
- 1996 - At the Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the "Option Red" supercomputer is started up, performing one trillion floating-point operations per second, making it the fastest computer in the world. The US$55 million computer uses 9072 Intel Pentium Pro processors with 600 GB memory and 2 terabyte disc storage.
- 2003 - Linus Torvalds announces the release of 2.6.0 of the Linux kernel. New features include ability to run on up to 32-processor multiprocessor servers, improved handling of hard drive input-output requests, improved volume manager, removal of 256 storage system limit, removal of 2-terabyte file system limit.
- 2006 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. On seeing an altered photo, a woman says "That PhotoShopping freak!".
Video Game history:
- 1993 - Kay-Bee Toy Stores ceases selling the Night Trap video game in the USA.
- 1995 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. Two children play a home video game, showing a martial arts fighter fighting a tank. Another game is advertised as "Bonestorm". Another character refers to the games costing up to $70. Animated characters resembling Mario, Luigi, Donkey Kong, and Sonic the Hedgehog appear. Several video game titles in a store are shown, including "Save Hitler's Brain".
- 1999 - Infogrames of France announces it will acquire GT Interactive Software.
- 2006 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. A boy asks Santa Claus for "one of those video game chairs that vibrate".
- 2009 - Square Enix releases the Final Fantasy XIII video game for the PlayStation 3 in Japan.
- 2011 - Sony Computer Entertainment Japan launches the PlayStation Vita handheld video game system in Japan. Price is 24,980 yen (US$325), or 29,980 ($390) with 3G wireless. 26 launch titles are available.
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