1 Nov
2006
1 Nov
'06
3:30 p.m.
On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 19:54 -0700, Richard wrote:
Am I reading the classic computers list or the modern PCs list?
The reason for implementing said algorithm (assuming I'm reading the
former) is (a) 'beause it's there' and (b) 'To preserve computer hardware,
software _and operating practices_ as far as possible' (as the
constitution for one old computer group I'm a mmeber of says in the
constitution) [emphasis mine].
-tony
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?
In today's world, the way to implement the same algorithm would be to
use disk files; MUCH faster. With a TERABYTE of screaming fast disk