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To: Djarum
the amounts of data that will need to be stored and accessed will be unprecedented, measured in petabytes

Had to look that up...

peta-    a combining form used in the names of units of measure equal to one quadrillion (1015) of a given base unit.

53 posted on 11/09/2002 5:37:41 PM PST by Sandy
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To: Sandy
peta- a combining form used in the names of units of measure equal to one quadrillion (1015) of a given base unit.

Now that is bit more than my first computer....

63 posted on 11/09/2002 7:50:52 PM PST by FormerLurker
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