>All in all it doesn’t seem to do 90% of the things that make it different And then I found this interesting bit:ĭate-Received: Mon, 22-Apr-85 06:57:56 EST So it must be a cc/pcc thing, or some other C compiler they are using on the PDP-11 in Amsterdam circa 1985. Although I have been able to compile and run it on 4.2BSD/VAX. What is more weird is I didn’t see anyone having any reports of it working, just requests for the code. Now I’ve tried to compile it on contemporary UNIX of the time, namely Unix v7, 2.9 BSD and 2.10 BSD and they fail at the same point: I saved it to the side while I was looking for my main target. ![]() Even this was a retail product at one point retailing for $29 to $35 Of course it only works when you request from 127.0.0.1 as they sold a network searchable version of AltaVista, the Workgroup Edition. So how does it run? Well it’s a localized web service that resides on your desktop. ![]() Even at this point the search database is only 1.2GB And I only made it about 40% the way through the archive. I should add that I’m sharing the UTZOO archvie over the network. I should have expanded my NT 4.0 VM’s disk first, but I got this far until I was down to 200MB of free disk space So the next thing to do was to try the UTZOO archives. First I unpacked some BSD source code, and had it index that. So after Frank had mentioned it in passing, if I’d ever used AltaVista Personal Search 97 before I thought I’d give it a bit of a test. Yes in my hunt for obscure information grep was my tool of choice. I should be embarrassed as I was using grep. Now what about finding something in those files? But now we live in the future where not only can you just go out and buy terrabytes worth of storage but downloading 10 years worth of usenet is something you can accomplish in a few minutes (on a good connection) but storing it as flat files only takes 20 minutes to decompress some 2,070,332 worth of files is a trivial manner. I never got into the whole ‘desktop search’ thing as I used to know where my stuff was. Posted in Macintosh, MacOS, powerpc, SheepShaver | 14 Replies AltaVista Personal Indexer I’ll have to see if I can disable that, performance be damned (well I turned off JIT as it won’t compile with 4.7 either) so this won’t be fast, but I’m just patching stuff up, not re-implementing the wheel here. I hope.Īlso SheepShaver does something funky with it’s memory space, it does some direct mapping to the user area. It looks like all the stuff is there so this may be kind of easy. The other questions will be, can this build under Windows with MinGW configured like this, and can it build with OS X. ![]() As you can see it boots MacOS 8.0 which is also good enough for me. But 700kb compressed is a good starting point. Im starting with SheepShaver v2.2, which is pretty old. So this will be in the same effort of removing features, and trying to place in my SDL drivers, network and SCSI stuff. I only tweaked the config process to let me build it with GCC 4.7.2. The first thing I did for Basilisk II was to get it building on Linux, so here we are.
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