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For some interesting historical perspective, here's what Microsoft and partners had to come up with in 1998 to support Terraserver and it's 3TB of imagery. htt
by johnjreiser 10y ago
For some interesting historical perspective, here's what Microsoft and partners had to come up with in 1998 to support Terraserver and it's 3TB of imagery.
http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/68552/msr_tr_98_17_terraserver.pdf http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/68552/msr_tr_98_17_terras...
- mmanfrin 10y agoNeat that mapping Terra required them to build a computer capable of storing terabytes.
- andylynchnz 10y agoNot a coincidence - it was built to demonstrate the scalability of their technology to Terabyte datasets.
- mmanfrin 10y agoThe 'terra' I was referring to was earth :]