On 7 Feb 2013 05:05:41 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >Skellen, Frank kindly wrote: > >>Here's the data they used. >http://www.ordinal.com/ >http://sortbenchmark.org/2006_NeoSortMinute.pdf > > >Thanks for sorting me out! ;-) >I, sort of, wish to have those toys they played with to get these impressive >results to sort out the cynics... > >Thanks again! > >Groete / Greetings >Elardus Engelbrecht ( being sorted out! ;-D ) > > Back in 2001 I used SYNCSORT on HP-UX and was impressed by the way it made the mainframe version look old fashioned. I could use a COBOL copy book or define fields inline and sort by field name. Since none of the SYNCSORT manuals are online, I can't compare the sorts between platforms but I suspect that in many ways the application interfaces are more advanced on other platforms.
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