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From: wilker@gauss.math.purdue.edu (Clarence Wilkerson)
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Subject: Re: Big TeX
Summary: The memmax is 64k, but btex is made with larger "words"
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Date: 2 Jun 90 15:59:20 GMT
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The unit of storage in TeX is called a "word", and on Unix
in some versions one has a compile time option for the size
in bytes for the "word" to be used. So going up from a 4 byte
word to an 8 byte word would double the memory size.