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From: tim@cstr.ed.ac.uk (Tim Bradshaw)
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Subject: Re: Redesigning TeX (was: Why use TeX if ...)
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Date: 18 May 91 14:45:00 GMT
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In-reply-to: monardo@cshl.org's message of 17 May 91 03:35:42 GMT

>>>>> On 17 May 91 03:35:42 GMT, monardo@cshl.org (Pat Monardo) said:

 [ In response to a previous post saying that the 256 register limit
   is a pain ]

> would you like 4 billion registers? thats possible.

Does Common TeX do this?  The allocations of anything ought to be
limited by the machine's VM or address space, and it sounds like
that's what you're hinting at.

--tim