From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Perkin-Elmer Sort/Merge II vs Unix sort(1)
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 15:46:00 +1100 (AEDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <89f25e13-4b94-8dcf-a3fe-f3b5856933be@horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250117200702.A4D6AB7D6F0E@ary.qy>
On Sat, 17 Jan 2025, John Levine wrote:
> The unix sort program is fine for what it does which is sorting toy
> sized files on small disks. There's nothing wrong with that, I still
> use it all the time, but other than the name it doesn't have much in
> common with mainframe sort/merge.
Hands up all those who remember SORMG...
-- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-01-18 4:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-01-17 17:23 [TUHS] " Diomidis Spinellis
2025-01-17 19:10 ` [TUHS] " Bakul Shah via TUHS
2025-01-17 19:35 ` Marc Rochkind
2025-01-18 14:51 ` Diomidis Spinellis
2025-01-18 15:16 ` Larry McVoy
2025-01-18 15:40 ` Paul Winalski
2025-01-18 16:54 ` Marc Rochkind
2025-01-19 3:45 ` sjenkin
2025-01-18 16:00 ` Bakul Shah via TUHS
2025-01-18 16:25 ` Tom Lyon
2025-01-18 17:07 ` ron minnich
2025-01-18 19:39 ` Marc Rochkind
2025-01-17 20:07 ` John Levine
2025-01-18 4:46 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2025-01-17 18:12 Douglas McIlroy
2025-01-18 4:29 ` G. Branden Robinson
2025-01-21 21:53 Douglas McIlroy
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