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To: TideGlider who wrote (7674)	6/26/1998 9:13:00 AM
From: MeDroogies	Respond to of 19080

There is no way that many people knew about it...I just asked a number of my savviest MIS people about it, and they hadn't heard... Also, when I mentioned the problem, they laughed about SQL being used for this purpose and said they weren't surprised it would have problems. Not so much because of SQL's deficiencies (though they thought that was a minor problem), but because SQL usually has to run on NT - which they didn't feel was up to the task.

To: TideGlider who wrote (7674)	6/26/1998 9:14:00 AM
From: Michael Olin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19080

From terraserver.microsoft.com The TerraServer AlphaServer 8400 platform is powered by eight 440 MHz Alpha 21164 64-bit processors (scalable to fourteen 625 MHz processors) and 10 GB of RAM, giving TerraServer maximum performance for the large number of visitors requesting images. It is configured with 4 MB of four-way L3 cache per processor, and advanced VLM-64 (64-bit Very Large Memory) ECC-protected memory, which is expandable to 28 GB. To achieve the bandwidth necessary to support TerraServer, the AlphaServer offers up to 12 peer PCI buses with 267 MBps bandwidth per bus. Its high-bandwidth, 1.87 GBps synchronous bus, which employs nine backplane slots, offers ample performance with plenty of room to scale the server as demand grows. It comes standard with redundant cooling systems, and offers optional redundant power supplies for high availability needs. This is no Pentium II box from Dell! Just imagine what you could do with the same box running Digital Unix and Oracle8 !!! The conversation this morning has been along the lines of "It's proof of concept." "Yes, running something that big on NT and SQL Server is proving to be a bad concept." I still want to get a look at my house. The images are quite recent, I should be able to see my new landscaping ;) -Michael PS: Can any conspiracy theorists explain the helicopter hovering above the intersection of 5th and 47th for about half an hour at 8:30 this morning?