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From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Sorting
Message-ID: <16051@bfmny0.BFM.COM>
Date: 21 Nov 90 04:57:39 GMT
References: <11628@alice.att.com>
Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
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In article <11628@alice.att.com> dmr@alice.att.com (Dennis Ritchie) writes:
>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?

Dennis, it'll take some work to gauge the problem, then we'll be on
track.  We're not one of those outfits that tries to railroad you into
one solution, only to switch you later on.  Our engineers will go to
work decoupling the problem, as we train them to do, and I'm not just
blowing smoke when I tell you that the solution we tender will really
make the grade.

By the way, have you got a dozen or so empty rolling stock we can use
for tempfiles??  :-)

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