Variable word sorting in the RCA 501 system

  • Authors:

  • F. H. Applebaum

  • Affiliations:

  • Radio Corporation of America, Camden, New Jersey

  • Venue:
  • ACM '59 Preprints of papers presented at the 14th national meeting of the Association for Computing Machinery
  • Year:
  • 1959

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Abstract

The design of a variable word computing system such as the RCA 501 has stimulated investigations into techniques for efficiently sorting business data. This paper is a report on a generalized sorting routine arising from this investigation.