Whitlow Syncsort ad, 1976

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Author: hanc...
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2018 19:34

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On IBM mainframes, it was common to replace the IBM given sort with
an independent sort developed by the Whitlow company.  It was called
Syncsort and it remains in use today.

Here is a 1976 ad for the program, showing its features:
https://books.google.com/books?id=oLEYjJy98MsC&lpg=PA60&dq=sperry%20remington&pg=PA3#v=onepage&q=sperry%20remington&f=false

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syncsort

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