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From: Marc Rochkind <mrochkind@gmail.com>
To: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Perkin-Elmer Sort/Merge II vs Unix sort(1)
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 12:39:44 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOkr1zW6taxuEMrhCkM+ZCoMJ0ucZTFa_6PZnenY=AR7AqT3xg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP6exY+dieYR6c4ofpTb__ZKajjzucqNt5qFb8d_dQrfg9bj4Q@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sat, Jan 18, 2025 at 12:30 PM ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:

> I checked and syncsort is still  out there, doing their thing. Fifty years
> of sorting! Sort of amazing.
>

You mean the product has been on the market that long, or that a sort is
still running? ;-)

Marc

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  reply	other threads:[~2025-01-18 19:40 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 [this message]
2025-01-17 20:07 ` John Levine
2025-01-18  4:46   ` Dave Horsfall
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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