RE: [cc65] Sorting large files

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From: René de Bie (Rene_at_the-underground.myweb.nl)
Date: 2002-08-27 07:59:43 

Hi,

>Just hoping to get a few suggestions as to how to sort a potentially
very >large file (could be up to 90k) and each record is about 27 bytes
long.
>
>On the PC I would just load the whole thing into memory, sort it and
dump >it back to disk. On the 6502 with only 64k, can't do that.  Anyone
have >some suggestions as to how to go about this?

On the Atari 8-bit 256Kb and 1Mb extra memory is very common now. It
uses a 16Kb bank-switching window at $4000-$7FFF. When you have some
software you could simulate a this memory as 1 big block.

TXG/MNX


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