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   Lawrence D'Oliveiro to Ben Collver   
   Re: How Unix Spell Ran in 64kB RAM   
   23 Jan 25 23:54:00   
   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 15:16:38 -0000 (UTC), Ben Collver wrote:   
      
   > Instead of relying on generic compression techniques, he took advantage   
   > of the properties of the data and developed a compression algorithm that   
   > came within 0.03 bits of the theoretical limit of possible compression.   
   > To this day, it remains unbeaten.   
      
   All of which only worked for the English language (US).   
      
   What happened when they had to support other languages?   
      
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