[Info-vax] AltaVista background information

[joukj]

Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 10/15/2011 8:14 PM, MG wrote:
>> On 15-10-2011 22:30, John Wallace wrote:
>>> 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 think 1.0, 1.5, 6.1 and 6.2.
> 
Correct 7.0 was the first 64-bit version.
I remember getting the CD-set on my desk exactly the same day as 
windows95 was released claiming with a lot of press releases that it was 
now 32-bits

                            Jouk