[HECnet] Altavista source

[Dave McGuire]

On November 10, 2019 12:21:36 PM Supratim Sanyal <supratim at riseup.net> wrote:
> 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?

  It was Alpha only when we hosted its prototypes, under OSF/1.

               -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
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