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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Xinu, Minix and other manners
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Date: 15 Oct 90 22:42:06 GMT
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In article <6286@plains.NoDak.edu> overby@plains.NoDak.edu (Glen Overby) writes:
>To digress even further into publishing, what are the numbers on the credits
>page for?  Printing numbers, I assume?

Yes.  The line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 (ignition) tells which printing it is.
On each new printing, they put some snopake-type stuff on the negatives to
erase the rightmost number.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)