Discussion of large systems

[Richard]

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:
> 
> >     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?

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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