17 Nov
2012
17 Nov
'12
5:49 p.m.
On 11/17/2012 5:14 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
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