The Pentium MMX line was introduced on 22 October 1996.

VLB importantly offered an affordable high speed interface for consumer systems, as only by 1996 was PCI commonly available outside of the server market via the Pentium and Intel's Triton chipset.

MMX is a single instruction, multiple data ( SIMD ) instruction set designed by Intel, introduced in 1996 with their P5-based Pentium line of microprocessors, designated as " Pentium with MMX Technology ".

The Pentium Pro's integer performance lead disappeared rapidly, first overtaken by the MIPS Technologies R10000 in January 1996, and then by Digital Equipment Corporation's EV56 variant of the Alpha 21164.

The first use of the PR system was in 1996, when AMD used it to assert that their AMD 5x86 processor was as fast as a Pentium running at 75 MHz.

While LGA sockets have been in use as early as 1996 by the MIPS R10000 and HP PA-8000 processors, the interface did not gain widespread use until Intel introduced their LGA platform, starting with the 5x0 and 6x0 sequence Pentium 4 ( Prescott ) in 2004.

Introduced in March 1996, its primary competition was Intel's Pentium microprocessor.

Throughout the 1990s out-of-order execution became more common, and was featured in the IBM / Motorola PowerPC 601 ( 1993 ), Fujitsu / HAL SPARC64 ( 1995 ), Intel Pentium Pro ( 1995 ), MIPS R10000 ( 1996 ), HP PA-8000 ( 1996 ), AMD K5 ( 1996 ) and DEC Alpha 21264 ( 1998 ).

* Kathryn Gargett ; Susan Marsden, Adelaide: A Brief History Adelaide: State History Centre, History Trust of South Australia in association with Adelaide City Council, 1996 ISBN 978-0-7308-0116-0

A 1996 Tel Aviv hospital study of 67 patients with back pain of more than three months duration found patients benefited from a multidisciplinary approach to treatment that included back schooling, psychological intervention, and treatment by acupuncture, chiropractic, the Alexander Technique and a pain specialist.

However, the subsequent period saw the departure of manager van Gaal along with an exodus of many key players including Clarence Seedorf in 1995 ; Edgar Davids, Michael Reiziger, Finidi George, and Nwankwo Kanu in 1996 ; Patrick Kluivert, Marc Overmars, and Winston Bogarde in 1997 ; Ronald de Boer and Frank de Boer in 1998 ; and Edwin van der Sar and Jari Litmanen in 1999.

* Anton Diabelli's guitar works-a thematic catalogue with an introduction ; Doctoral Thesis by Jukka Savijoki ( Sibelius Academy ; 1996 )

* On March 7, 1998, Daniel Rudolph, the elder brother of the 1996 Olympics bomber Eric Robert Rudolph, videotaped himself cutting off one of his own hands with an electric saw to " send a message to the FBI and the media.

The musical was also revived with great success in 1996, starring Nathan Lane as Pseudolus ( replaced later in the run by Whoopi Goldberg and also by David Alan Grier ), Mark Linn-Baker as Hysterium, Ernie Sabella as Lycus, Jim Stanek as Hero, Lewis J. Stadlen as Senex, and Cris Groenendaal as Miles Gloriosus.

On September 21, 1996, barely three years after the " Don't Ask, Don't Tell " imbroglio, and further straining relations with the LGBT community, Clinton signed into law the Defense of Marriage Act ( DOMA ), which defines marriage as the legal union of one man and one woman.

From 1994 to 1996, Marvel Comics published a monthly Beavis and Butt-Head comic under the Marvel Absurd imprint by a variety of writers, but with each issue drawn by artist Rick Parker.

In Flint, Michigan, a 21 year old man was charged with distributing child pornography through his BBS in March 1996.

Membership in the Commonwealth of Independent States, as well as the 1996 treaty on the Union of Russia and Belarus and the Treaty of the Formation of a Union State in 1999, has confirmed a close partnership with Russia.

It has also been in a supranational union with Russia since 2 April 1996, although this has had little practical effect.

Similarly, the USAID phased out a long-standing bilateral partnership with Botswana in 1996, after successful programs emphasizing education, training, entrepreneurship, environmental management, and reproductive health.

The BSP won convincingly the pre-term elections in December 1994 with a majority of 125 seats out of the 240 seats in the parliament and despite the mandate is for 4 years, BSP's government collapsed too and remained in office until 1996 due to the economic crysis in Bulgaria.

In February 1996, the ruling ODP / MT merged with several small opposition parties to form the Congress for Democracy and Progress ( CDP ).

In the 1990s, Peter formed One More Time, a group that enjoyed European success with the ABBA-like " Highland " and, later, as Sweden's entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 1996.

Kiernan ( 1996 ) argues on the basis of paleographical and codicological evidence, that the poem is contemporary with the manuscript.

On 18 November 2008 the band released The BBC Sessions, which features songs from the period of 1996 – 2001 ( including the last recordings featuring Isobel Campbell before she left the band ), along with a second disc featuring a recording of a live performance in Belfast from Christmas 2001.

The Baltimore Ravens are officially a quasi-expansion franchise, having originated in 1996 with the Cleveland Browns relocation controversy after Art Modell, then owner of the Cleveland Browns, announced his intention to relocate the team to Baltimore.

Lara is the father of a girl called Sydney ( born 1996 ) whom he fathered with Trinidadian journalist and model Leasel Rovedas.

On the other hand, in 1995 he toured in Japan with Kurtalan Ekspres, leading to Live In Japan ( 1996 ), his first and only live album.

In 1996, he was a writer and co-creator of the show Space Cases, a Nickelodeon television show with themes similar to Lost in Space.

In 1996, it was mentioned that Mumy was also reunited with Harris, again, at a Walt Disney convention in Orlando, Florida.

Talks with political opponents in early 1996 did not go well, but Déby announced his intent to hold presidential elections in June.

Three teams with a total of 44 candidates contested the general election held on November 20, 1996: the governing National Team, Team Cayman and the Democratic Alliance Group.

This resulted in army mutinies in 1996 – 1997, where fractions of the military clashed with the presidential guard, the Unité de sécurité présidentielle ( USP ) and militias loyal to Patassé.

The first widely-deployed desktop SIMD was with Intel's MMX extensions to the x86 architecture in 1996.

On July 17, 1996, Clinton issued Executive Order 13011 – Federal Information Technology, ordering the heads of all federal agencies to utilize information technology fully to make the information of the agency easily accessible to the public.

* University of Medical Sciences and Technology, better known as UMST, it was founded in 1996 by Prof. Mamoun Humaida as Academy of Medical Science & Technology.

Intelligent Networks: Basic Technology, Standards and Evolution, Thompson Computer Press, 1996.

* Arthur Norberg, Judy E. O ' Neill, Transforming Computer Technology: Information Processing for the Pentagon, 1962-1982 ( Johns Hopkins University, 1996 )

Among the companies that were bought or merged with WorldCom were Advanced Communications Corp. ( 1992 ), Metromedia Communication Corp. ( 1993 ), Resurgens Communications Group ( 1993 ), IDB Communications Group, Inc ( 1994 ), Williams Technology Group, Inc. ( 1995 ), and MFS Communications Company ( 1996 ).

At the 1996 BETT Educational Computing & Technology Awards, the machine was awarded Gold in the hardware category.

In a 1996 acoustic study by the Acoustical Society of America, along with Wellesley College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, found that the perceived pitch of a note with vibrato " is that of its mean ", or the middle of the fluctuating pitch.

* University of Information Technology and Management ( established in 1996 ) website

In 1996, the Rochester Institute of Technology established the first software engineering Bachelor's degree program in the United States, however, it did not obtain ABET accreditation until 2003, the same time as Rice University, Clarkson University, Milwaukee School of Engineering and Mississippi State University obtained theirs.

In November 1996, eBay entered into its first third-party licensing deal, with a company called Electronic Travel Auction to use SmartMarket Technology to sell plane tickets and other travel products.

*" The Uncertainty Principle ," Technology Review, April 1996 ; also published under the title " Seasons "

* Friedman, George and Meredith, The Future of War: Power, Technology and American World Dominance in the 21st Century, Crown, 1996, ISBN 0-517-70403-X

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996, 9 pages.

NTNU was formed in 1996 by the merger of the Norwegian Institute of Technology ( NTH ) ( 1910 ), the College of Arts and Sciences ( AVH ), the Museum of Natural History and Archaeology ( VM ), the Faculty of Medicine ( DMF ), the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art and the Trondheim Conservatory of Music ( MiT ).

graduate Hintze ( died September 1996 ) had also donated more than $ 28 million to the advancement and development of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

* Matthias Judt ; Burghard Ciesla, " Technology Transfer Out of Germany After 1945 " Harwood Academic Publishers, 1996.

He saw the college through two name changes — Southern College of Technology ( often called Southern Tech ) in 1987 and Southern Polytechnic State University in the summer of 1996, when the school also became a university.

Opened in 1996, it is co-located with Rockingham Challenger Institute of Technology campus, and features an arts and commerce building.

Cocke won the Eckert-Mauchly Award in 1985, ACM Turing Award in 1987, the National Medal of Technology in 1991 and the National Medal of Science in 1994, The Franklin Institute's Certificate of Merit in 1996, the Seymour Cray Computer Science and Engineering Award in 1999, and the The Benjamin Franklin Medal in 2000.

Consequently in 1996, the University dropped the " of Technology " from its title, becoming " Loughborough University ".

George Stephen Boolos ( September 4, 1940, New York City – May 27, 1996 ) was a philosopher and a mathematical logician who taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

* Yearbook of Science and Technology Wavelets, 1996