# How Unix Spell Ran in 64kB RAM - by Abhinav Upadhyay

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

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## What Jamie wrote

Wow, I had no idea there was this kind of wizardry in the early versions of `spell`!

> Using Golomb's code, a compression scheme designed for geometric distributions, he achieved 13.60 bits per word—remarkably close to the theoretical minimum of 13.57 bits.

Very cool!

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