UNIX system to house 140 mbyte unformatted textual dbase?

[trt at rti-sel.UUCP]

I ran this on a "Gould Concept 32/8750" (whew) when it was fairly idle.
The filesystem is 1k/8k, but there are only 102 1K incore buffers.

	Script started on Tue May 29 18:34:20 1984
	rti-sel% time wc /usr/dict/words
	   24474   24474  201039 /usr/dict/words
	        1.2 real         0.6 user         0.2 sys  
	rti-sel% time egrep xxx /usr/dict/words
	        1.1 real         0.5 user         0.3 sys  
	rti-sel% ^D
	script done on Tue May 29 18:34:45 1984

I have about 5 megabytes of old news article titles (plus article ID)
so it is handy to have a fast grep.
	Tom Truscott