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From: nobody@ism780c.UUCP (Unprivileged user)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Sort Co-Processors
Message-ID: <7473@ism780c.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-Oct-87 19:23:11 EDT
Article-I.D.: ism780c.7473
Posted: Fri Oct  9 19:23:11 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 12-Oct-87 03:34:07 EDT
References: <112@sdeggo.UUCP>
Reply-To: marv@ism780.UUCP (Marvin Rubenstein)
Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica CA
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In article <112@sdeggo.UUCP> dave@sdeggo.UUCP (David L. Smith) writes:
<Has anyone out there ever run across a sorting co-processor?  I was doodling
<around the other day and it seemed to me that a lot of computers spend a
<lot of time sorting things out.  An add-on box that you could stuff things
<into and pull them back out of in sorted order would be real handy.
<
<Is there any research being done in this, or does it sound like a useless
<idea?

I was doing research at NCR in 1972.  My project was to study the feasibility
of a compiling engine as a co-processor.  At the same my boss was studing
a sorting co-processor.  Needless to say neither device was ever built.

		Marv Rubinstein -- Interactive Systems