1 Nov
2006
1 Nov
'06
4 a.m.
On Tuesday 31 October 2006 22:45, Doc Shipley wrote:
Richard wrote:
Assuming it's the same as the one talked about on here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merge_sort
That's 4 drives. I could easily do that on DLT or 3480 media. :)
I've got enough 9-tracks to do that, but they're not all of the same
interface type, so it would be somewhat harder to do...
(3 IBM 3420's, 2 DEC TU81+'s, 2 SCSI 9 tracks, and a partridge..er..
Fujitsu M2444 PERTEC tape drive.)
I guess I could probably set up a VAX with two TU81+'s and the SCSI tape
drives...
Pat
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In article <45479038.22326.4735378C at
cclist.sydex.com>,
"Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> writes:
How many would that be? After alll, it was the tape drives that defined a
computer for
Hollywood for many years...
So far noone has responded to my earlier query in the affirmative:
Does anyone have enough tape drives that they can do the
multi-drive merge/sort tape algorithms described in Knuth's
Art of Computer Programming?