[46332] in Cypherpunks
altavista.digital.com
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Salz)
Tue Jan 2 23:14:33 1996
From: Rich Salz <rsalz@osf.org>
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 22:54:06 -0500
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
>From a friend at work. Marginal crypto relevance but useful for alerting
those who think public mailing lists and Usenet are one-time pads. :)
>A friend of mine at Digital implemented the Alta Vista search engine.
>Here's the configuration he's working with today, with plans for scaling
>as necessary.
>
>>The web index is built and queried by a two processor 300MHz Alpha.
>>There's 2GBytes of RAM and 200GBytes of disc on RAID controllers.
>>We'll have to expand if load really takes off. There are other,
>>smaller machines doing the HTTP server, the news index, the news spool,
>>and the web robot.
/r$
