18 Nov
2012
18 Nov
'12
9:59 a.m.
On Nov 17, 2012, at 5:49 PM, mc68010 wrote:
On 11/17/2012 5:14 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
Yes, they were stored my storage units. I got tired of having them and asked if they
could be disposed of. Along with a large number of DS20's there were also a fair
number of DS10s. In addition to the CPUs there were several TBs in disk arrays (built
using 4GB, 9GB and 18GB drives?it was a lot of drives).
TTFN - Guy
On 17/11/12 7:06 PM, Nigel Williams wrote:
I am coming to this thread late so, I apologize if already mentioned. I had a couple of
the AltaVista servers. They were given away or sold cheap in the San Francisco area. All
the ones I had, or ran into, were DS20E with the faceplate removed. One of mine was the
development's teams test server. Had the whole source tree and build environment for
their engine. Well did before the disk died. They were all Tru64.
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 10:31 AM, David
Riley<fraveydank at gmail.com> wrote:
I didn't see a date on that post, but some cross-referencing puts that hardware
configuration circa 1996-1997?
Also, they offered an "Appliance" version:
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Powerful+AltaVista+Search+Technology+Extends+…
--Toby
Of course, I don't recall whether AltaVista
ran on VMS or
not.
According to this thread: DEC's AltaVista was on Tru64 UNIX due to lack of
64-bit support in VMS at the time:
http://rbnsn.com/pipermail/info-vax_rbnsn.com/2011-October/036548.html
This post shows the hardware backing AltaVista:
http://rbnsn.com/pipermail/info-vax_rbnsn.com/2011-October/036587.html