Discussion of large systems

[Doc Shipley]

Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> On Tuesday 31 October 2006 22:45, Doc Shipley wrote:
>> Richard wrote:
>>> In article <45479038.22326.4735378C at cclist.sydex.com>,
>>>
>>>     "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com>  writes:
>>>> 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?
>>    How many would that be?
> 
> 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. :)

   Hrrrm.  I think I could do that on TZ30s.  *shudder*

   I know I could do it on SCSI DDS.

> I guess I could probably set up a VAX with two TU81+'s and the SCSI tape 
> drives...

   I could do that on the 11/84.  Two TU80s and 2 TSZ07

   Or cheat horribly and attach a bunch of TU58 emulators to a box with 
multi-line serial board....


	Doc