[Info-vax] AltaVista background information

[MG]

On 15-10-2011 22:30, John Wallace wrote:
> Digital? Yes.
> VMS? No. Tru64? Yes. Alpha? Yes.

Are you summing it up for yourself, or?


> No VMS, and one of the reasons there was no VMS was that Altavista was
> (iirc) intended as a showcase for what becomes possible when you have
> a 64bit address space. VMS didn't have real 64bit support at that
> time.

VMS Alpha didn't have 64-bit support?  (Which versions, V6.1 and those
before that?)


> I was going to suggest you have a look at the Digital Technical
> Journal, which is always informative, but it seems they didn't do an
> article on Altavista Search.

Hence why I'm inquiring here.


> The Wikipedia article says there are books on the subject. I'm not
> familiar with any of them.

Me neither.


> Maybe someone else can add some more detail - but there won't be much
> VMS content in AltaVista Search.

Yes, that would be good.  Especially as practically nothing of
AltaVista seems to have survived.  It's too long ago for something
like, say, Archive.org to have backed up:

     <http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://altavista.digital.com>


- MG