From: grog@lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey)
Subject: [TUHS] Early non-Unix filesystems?
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 18:12:05 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160323071205.GB3766@eureka.lemis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160323070229.GG64087@server.rulingia.com>
On Wednesday, 23 March 2016 at 18:02:29 +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On 2016-Mar-23 17:49:19 +1100, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at lemis.com> wrote:
>> They used to have big, mechanical machines for sorting cards. What
>> did they call them? Collators?
>
> Sorters:
> http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/sorter.html
>
> You select a column and it sorts the cards into bins by the value of that
> column. You then stack the cards out of all the bins back into the feed
> hopper and sort by the next column. You'd need 8 passes to do a full sort
> (given sequence numbers in 73-80).
Ah, that's what Milo was referring to.
Greg
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2016-03-18 0:48 Warren Toomey
2016-03-18 2:49 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-03-18 3:59 ` John Cowan
2016-03-18 5:11 ` Warren Toomey
2016-03-18 17:45 ` John Cowan
2016-03-18 8:00 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-03-18 8:42 ` Peter Jeremy
2016-03-18 13:04 ` Clem Cole
2016-03-18 17:12 ` scj
2016-03-18 17:45 ` Random832
2016-03-18 18:02 ` scj
2016-03-21 14:11 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-03-21 21:43 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-03-21 22:57 ` scj
2016-03-21 23:05 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2016-03-22 0:27 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-03-23 22:46 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-03-24 0:32 ` Ron Natalie
2016-03-24 0:43 ` Milo Velimirovic
2016-03-24 0:47 ` Ron Natalie
2016-03-24 1:05 ` Clem Cole
2016-03-23 1:28 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-03-23 1:51 ` Milo Velimirovic
2016-03-23 6:49 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-03-23 7:02 ` Peter Jeremy
2016-03-23 7:12 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey [this message]
2016-03-23 13:54 ` Ron Natalie
2016-03-23 16:28 ` John Cowan
2016-03-23 8:20 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-03-21 11:07 ` Tony Finch
2016-03-21 12:06 ` John Cowan
2016-03-22 0:13 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-03-22 0:48 ` John Cowan
2016-03-18 17:01 ` Pat Barron
2016-03-22 5:21 ` shawn wilson
2016-03-23 0:54 ` Clem Cole
2016-03-23 1:07 ` Clem Cole
[not found] <mailman.1.1458266402.23080.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2016-03-18 2:13 ` Johnny Billquist
2016-03-18 2:36 ` Charles Anthony
2016-03-18 2:26 Noel Chiappa
2016-03-22 0:56 Doug McIlroy
2016-03-23 1:58 Doug McIlroy
[not found] <mailman.1.1458784801.4499.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2016-03-24 10:17 ` Johnny Billquist
2016-03-24 11:35 ` Ron Natalie
2016-03-24 11:37 ` Johnny Billquist
2016-03-24 22:50 ` Peter Jeremy
2016-03-24 23:06 ` Johnny Billquist
[not found] ` <9CBDF635-2FC9-4855-8419-0413EC0336A7@centurytel.net>
2016-03-25 0:35 ` Johnny Billquist
2016-03-27 0:48 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-03-24 19:13 Nemo
2016-03-24 19:54 ` Milo Velimirović
2016-03-26 21:05 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-03-26 21:34 ` Charles Anthony
2016-03-26 22:09 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-03-28 20:32 ` scj
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