[Info-vax] AltaVista background information

[JF Mezei]

MG wrote:
> Recently I thought about AltaVista, the search engine I used in the


Alta Vista was one of the rare mafketing attempts by Digital to showcase
what its Alpha chip could do. And they had a fair success and exposure
with it because people knew it ran on Alpha.

Unfortunatly, as part of the many divestitures to prepare Digital to be
purchased by Compaq, it was spun off and faded into obscurity and its
leftovers were purchased by Yahoo. (which which was not an Alpha shop).