[TUHS] Perkin-Elmer Sort/Merge II vs Unix sort(1)

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Sat Jan 18 14:46:00 AEST 2025


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


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