1 Nov
2006
1 Nov
'06
9:48 a.m.
On 1 Nov 2006 at 9:54, C Sullivan wrote:
As to WHY you'd want to do a sort onto tape, my
To: field says this
is the classic computer mailing list. It sounds like a fun project
for somebody who as an old PDP (and the space for six tape drives) or
similar lying around. Heck, it might even make a fun programming
project to "emulate" it using a bitty box and some virtual "tape
drives". Lastly, it would make a great academic project for teaching.
I suppose that if it was "performance art" that someone wanted to
create, the effect would be more spectacular if paper tape
punch/readers were used. No reason why it shouldn't work...AFAIK,
all of the access in the algorithms is write/read/rewind; no fancy
random skipping.
Cheers,
Chuck