How Unix spell ran in 64 kB of RAM
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Per Hacker News, a blog post explores how the Unix 'spell' command—a classic text-checking utility—ran in just sixty-four kilobytes of RAM. The piece illustrates the efficiency constraints that shaped early computing, when memory was precious and every byte counted.
Source: https://blog.codingconfessions.com/p/how-unix-spell-ran-i...
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