I was doing a little operations research work with Dick Larson one semester. We had to sort 300,000 phone numbers which I figured would take a long time on my beloved Symbolics 3600. I said to myself "Why not use the 50 MIPS, 64-Mbyte RAM HP RISC machine on your desk for something other than reading mail?". I wrote a little program in MIT Scheme; it went off into never never land. I pulled out Riv