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Douglas McIlroy responds to Unix spell article with new implementation details

abhi9u Thursday, February 06, 2025

I originally wrote this article explaining the data model as implemented in the original Unix "spell": https://blog.codingconfessions.com/p/how-unix-spell-ran-in-6....

This reached Doug, who then responded to it with the follow up work he did which wasn't published anywhere.

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