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List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: --0000000000004c6332063004e0ef Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Doug, do you know how much better Ziv-Lempel does? I'm guessing "a little bit"? On Mon, Mar 10, 2025 at 3:52=E2=80=AFPM Douglas McIlroy < douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu> wrote: > I have sent a copy to Warren for the Unix archives. > > Doug > > On Sat, Dec 28, 2024 at 9:54=E2=80=AFPM Royce Williams > wrote: > > > > Someone I know is seeking the original version of an internal Bell Labs > memo from 1974 titled "Webster's Second on the Head of a Pin" by Morris a= nd > Thompson. The topic appears to be related to improving the speed of looku= ps > or search. It's cited in a few papers as "Unpublished Technical Memo, Bel= l > Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ 1974." All I can find online is citations. > Any leads appreciated! > > > > -- > > Royce > --=20 James D. (jj) Johnston Former Chief Scientist, Immersion Networks --0000000000004c6332063004e0ef Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Doug, do you know how much better Ziv-Lempel does? I'm= guessing "a little bit"?

On Mon, Mar 10, 20= 25 at 3:52=E2=80=AFPM Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu> wrote:
I have sent a copy to Warren f= or the Unix archives.

Doug

On Sat, Dec 28, 2024 at 9:54=E2=80=AFPM Royce Williams <royce@techsolvency.com> = wrote:
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> Someone I know is seeking the original version of an internal Bell Lab= s memo from 1974 titled "Webster's Second on the Head of a Pin&quo= t; by Morris and Thompson. The topic appears to be related to improving the= speed of lookups or search. It's cited in a few papers as "Unpubl= ished Technical Memo, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ 1974." All I = can find online is citations. Any leads appreciated!
>
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> Royce


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James D. (jj) Johnston

Former = Chief Scientist, Immersion Networks
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