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Reminds me that AltaVista's servers ran in 4G of RAM (there were famous, at the time, pics of the circuit boards - DEC was rightfully proud of this, 30 years ag
by eichin 2mo ago
Reminds me that AltaVista's servers ran in 4G of RAM (there were famous, at the time, pics of the circuit boards - DEC was rightfully proud of this, 30 years ago) and that a modern AltaVista should run on a decent laptop :-)
- coredog64 2mo agoDuring AltaVista's prime, 32MB would have been a lot of memory for a typical computer.
- eichin 2mo agoI still can't find pics of the boards (other than on ebay :-) but https://seltzerbooks.com/alta.html https://seltzerbooks.com/alta.html has quotes like "To get a sense of the relative size of the RAM in AltaVista Search, consider that a typical personal computer today comes with 8 to 16MB of RAM, and the AltaVista Index Servers each have 6GB of RAM—about 500 times more." and "AltaVista shows the practical value of machines that have more than 4 gigabytes of physical main memory." (Dick Sites, DEC SRL) The book is from 1997.