How Unix Spell Ran in 64kB RAM

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How Unix Spell Ran in 64kB RAM

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months ago

How do you fit a dictionary in 64kb RAM? Unix engineers solved it with clever data structures and compression tricks. Here's the fascinating story behind it.

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