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From: Dennis Ritchie
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 1990 06:26
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 1990 06:26
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This group has turned into a sewer, as bad as talk.origins (even the people I might politically agree with are acting dumb). But I do have a serious question. I've got a boxcar with 10,000 8-mm tapes, each containing 10,000,000 100-byte binary records without any substructure. I need to get these records sorted. Can someone quote me a cost and expected delivery time? This is just the start of a burgeoning business; next week I expect a full trainload of 100 such boxcars. What will this cost and how long will it take your company to handle it? Since I understand that this will run into big bucks, I trust your company can give a brief account of its technical approach before I write the purchase orders. Dennis Ritchie
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!dptg!ulysses!andante!alice!dmr From: dmr@alice.att.com (Dennis Ritchie) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Sorting Message-ID: <11628@alice.att.com> Date: 17 Nov 90 06:26:03 GMT Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ Lines: 18