[Info-vax] Redesign of http://h71000.www7.hp.com/ !

[Michael Unger]

On 2011-10-16 12:03, "Simon Clubley" wrote:

> Back when Warren Sander was still around, the VMS site did run on a
> VMS system and it was CSWS IIRC.

Having done a rather extensive search within my news archive of
"comp.os.vms" I've indeed found a posting of Warren ...

> [...]

Quoting it (partially):

| [...]
|
| 2) the server is a DS20E 833 dual processor, 2GB memory running
| OpenVMS 7.3 and Apache 1.3.
| [...] I've been waiting for approval of Integrity systems to replace
| the AlphaServer's so I can start anew but that's taking more time than
| I have wanted (3 years so far).
|
| [...]
|
| 4) I think I have one of only a couple of OpenVMS systems connected to
| HP's external network (the testdrive systems are the only other ones I
| know about).
|
| 5) the original OpenVMS server was based on OSU in 1995 and was an
| illegal cluster configuration of 2 AS200 4/233 (mustang) systems SCSI
| clustered to a BA232 pizza box. One of the mustangs was donated to the
| Digital Internet group as the original digital.com search engine
| running altavista software. Not the altavista main server but just an
| search of the digital.com sites (like search.hp.com is today). Anyway
| we broke up the cluster cause we never failed over in 2+ years decided
| that one system was ok and a site search was a better use of the
| resource. Then we got AS1000's to replace the mustang and sometime in
| there we switched over to purveyor as the web server. When they got
| CSWS done I was asked to switch over to apache which I did. About 4
| years ago the Tru64 UNIX AS1000 started having some memory issues. And
| there were a number of DS20's scheduled to be crushed. Working with
| the folks that host the servers we managed to save a couple of the
| DS20's and use them for the Tru64 UNIX and OpenVMS servers. Which is
| where we are today.
|
| [...]

It is dated Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:45:00 GMT / 13:45:00 PDT, the Message-Id
is <gFSug.629$lu3.344 at news.cpqcorp.net>, the NNTP-Posting-Host is
16.129.17.64, i.e., the traditional 16/8 DEC IP address range.

Michael

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