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From: monardo@cshl.org (Pat Monardo)
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Subject: Re: Redesigning TeX (was: Why use TeX if ...)
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Date: 17 May 91 03:35:42 GMT
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>One other thing I would like to change is the builtin limit in the
>language design of having 256 of each sort of register.  It would make
>much more sense (though perhaps at the expense of efficiency) if
>\newdimen etc were the primitives and we forgot about \dimen.
>
would you like 4 billion registers? thats possible.