10 Nov
2019
10 Nov
'19
5 p.m.
Hello all,
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?
Regards,
Supratim
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10 Nov
10 Nov
5:46 p.m.
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.
De
6:21 p.m.
On Nov 10, 2019, at 11:46 AM, Dennis Boone <drb at msu.edu> wrote:
What did the binary distribution run on?
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.
De
6:35 p.m.
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:
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
New Kensington, PA
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.
6:53 p.m.
On Nov 10, 2019, at 12:49 PM, Dennis Boone <drb at msu.edu> wrote:
Ok - so Alpha & OSF/1 was the platform. Did you guys really make 3c per click? What
was considered a Altavista branded service?
Those Web sites that choose to participate inAltaVista's Affiliate Network will
receive three cents per click-through when their users access AltaVista branded services.
- slashdot
What did the
binary distribution run on?
IIRC when we got it at the more-or-less product stage, it could run on a
few things, but since they were supporting the project, they wanted us
to run it on a DEC product. We bought an AlphaStation 600.
De
8:01 p.m.
Hi,
When I worked at Symantec (Enterprise Vault), I think we only ever had the altavista
indexing and search DLLs (Windows). We never saw the source code. A 64bit drop-in
replacement was developed internally but a 3rd party replacement was chosen instead. Such
was Symantec.
Keith
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On Nov 10, 2019, at 12:49 PM, Dennis Boone <drb at msu.edu<mailto:drb at
msu.edu>> wrote:
What did the binary distribution run on?
IIRC when we got it at the more-or-less product stage, it could run on a
few things, but since they were supporting the project, they wanted us
to run it on a DEC product. We bought an AlphaStation 600.
Ok - so Alpha & OSF/1 was the platform. Did you guys really make 3c per click? What
was considered a Altavista branded service?
Those Web sites that choose to participate inAltaVista's Affiliate Network will
receive three cents per click-through when their users access AltaVista branded services.
- slashdot
De
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