1 Nov
2006
1 Nov
'06
10:12 a.m.
In article <1162398718.6425.53.camel at linux.site>,
Warren Wolfe <wizard at voyager.net> writes:
On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 19:54 -0700, Richard wrote:
No, because having all those tape drives visibly spinning makes for
a familiar sight when it comes to old iron. People are *used* to "old
computers" looking like a large bank of spinning tape drives.
It boggles my mind why people think I am trying to perform "the
world's most efficient and timely sort" when I propose such a stunt.
If I wanted to do things efficiently and in a timely fashion, I
wouldn't use old hardware in the first place!
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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?
That would be six, I believe. But, why? Just to say one did it?