Re: How Unix Spell Ran in 64kB RAM

On Fri, 24 Jan 2025 00:23:44 -0000 (UTC), Eli the Bearded wrote:

When it was written, Unix' main use to the owning company was producing
phone books with the runoff tools. Those didn't need spell checking of
customer names or addresses, and so had very little text _to_ spell
check.

Actually, no. Remember the addition of automatic line numbers to troff was
of great interest to AT&T’s legal department, which spent a lot of time
creating things like patent applications.