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Re:The predecessor to Google Earth was clumsy, yet powerful by NelsonMinar on Friday September 24, 2021 @02:56PM (#28646434)
DEC, which Compaq bought. 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.

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