[HECnet] Altavista source

[Supratim Sanyal]

On Nov 10, 2019, at 11:46 AM, Dennis Boone <drb at msu.edu> wrote:

>> If Altavista was developed by the folks at WRL, SRC and NSL and the
>> source code was released into public domain at some point, there
>> would be a tape dump or something somewhere, wouldn’t it? Any known
>> places too look at?
> 
> I thought they started an affiliate program where you could get the code
> to build your own products, rather than that they open-sourced it.
> 
> We were the first outside org to have a binary copy of the software, in
> ~1995, and ran it to construct a limited topical index of manufacturing
> related sites, for a grant project.  They had just started offering the
> binary product.

What did the binary distribution run on?



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