Path: 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
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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