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During AltaVista's prime, 32MB would have been a lot of memory for a typical computer.
by coredog64 1mo ago
During AltaVista's prime, 32MB would have been a lot of memory for a typical computer.
- eichin 1mo 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.