>> ? We had two 8400s (8x 5/300) in the datacenter at a previous job.? They
>> were really quite nice machines.? They did a lot of offline processing
>> for a pre-Google search engine called Altavista.
> Ohhh, Altavista! The mother of all Web search engines. I used it a lot
> back in its days. A shame that it went down the drain with DEC...
> --
Yep, used Altavista a lot in the nineties, too.
Recalling that it was running on several Alphaserver 8400, I googled and found a nice
picture? at CHM:
http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/102640677
Kind regards,
Pierre
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Pierre's collection of classic computers :
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