In the 1970s, Douglas McIlroy faced the challenge of fitting a 250kB dictionary into 64kB of RAM while implementing the Unix spell checker for AT&T. He developed a compression algorithm that came within 0.
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In the 1970s, Douglas McIlroy faced the challenge of fitting a 250kB dictionary into 64kB of RAM while implementing the Unix spell checker for AT&T. He developed a compression algorithm that came within 0.
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