17 Nov
2012
17 Nov
'12
5:14 p.m.
On 17/11/12 7:06 PM, Nigel Williams wrote:
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