Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!mcnc!gatech!amdcad!msprick
From: msprick@amdcad.AMD.COM (Rick Dorris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Fast hardware sort
Summary: Any interest?
Message-ID: <20396@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Date: 15 Feb 88 22:51:45 GMT
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Reply-To: msprick@amdcad.UUCP (Rick Dorris)
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I'm just looking to see if there is any interest--
if so, please e-mail me a note.

Product:  A hardware board that would go inside
a xt or at that would allow sorts to be between
200 to 500 times faster. These sorts would have to
be done by making calls from either pascal, c or 
assembly-- ie. programs would have to be specifically
written to take advantage of the hardware.

Cost: hopefully around $300.

Wanted: Someone who knows enough about RBase,
d-base, clipper, fox-base, etc.. to make changes
to these programs to allow the hardware to take
over any sorting that needs to be done.

If you are interested in this project or have a lot
of useful software expertise, please send me some mail.

Oh, maybe I should ask: Is there currently a board that
does the same thing?  I'm not talking about just an
excelerator-- I'm looking at HUGE decreases in sort times.

Thanks,
rick

--no opinions expressed.