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.

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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$