DEC, which Compaq bought. http://jimgray.azurewebsites.net/papers/msr_tr_98_17_terraserver.pdf http://jimgray.azurewebsites.net/papers/msr_tr_98_17_terrase...

DEC, which Compaq bought. http://jimgray.azurewebsites.net/papers/msr_tr_98_17_terraserver.pdf http://jimgray.azurewebsites.net/papers/msr_tr_98_17_terrase... DEC Alpha was the first readily available 64 bit architecture for micro/mini computer sizes. Terraserver was in part a demo of how powerful that was. So was Altavista, the first really successful Web search engine. It started as a DEC research demo program.