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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jan-2025 10:27:37 JST nixCraft 🐧

   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. https://blog.codingconfessions.com/p/how-unix-spell-ran-in-64kb-ram

   • Jankat (jankatay@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 15:32:26 JST Jankat

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     @nixCraft
     Reading what genius people did decades ago makes me want to quit computers, but it's so damn impressive it's motivating.