Re:Yahoo shutting down AltaVista and other services
by drewcoo on Saturday June 29, 2013 @05:17AM
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So I kept expecting the cool geeky story about AltaVista to surface in all of my geek news feeds. But it didn't.
Does nobody remember how the service used to run on the DEC Alpha (aka "tin cup") and how they would stuff more RAM in every time a server would swap? Or did I remember that wrong?
The tin cup story (and DEC in general) and also the way AltaVista used to run are amazing geek history, imho.
Sorry for being late to the story, but this is a lot cooler than the JS hack of the day. Are there any old veterans here who can tell some of the story?
[Edit] FWIW, the Alpha architecture is still my personal favorite of the dozen or so I've worked on.
Does nobody remember how the service used to run on the DEC Alpha (aka "tin cup") and how they would stuff more RAM in every time a server would swap? Or did I remember that wrong?
The tin cup story (and DEC in general) and also the way AltaVista used to run are amazing geek history, imho.
Sorry for being late to the story, but this is a lot cooler than the JS hack of the day. Are there any old veterans here who can tell some of the story?
[Edit] FWIW, the Alpha architecture is still my personal favorite of the dozen or so I've worked on.