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From: dan@srs.UUCP (Dan Kegel)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Sort Co-Processors
Message-ID: <379@srs.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 11-Oct-87 11:06:27 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct 11 11:06:27 1987
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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?  
> Is there any research being done in this, or does it sound like a useless
> idea?

I heard somewhere that, using log N simple sort processors arranged cleverly,
one could perform a sort in N-time.  Has this ever been tried in hardware?
- Dan Kegel   rochester!srs!dan