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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?              --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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