On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, Robin Fairbairns wrote:

> [...]
> no: registers are things like boxes, counters, lengths and the like.  in
> knuth's original code, there were a maximum of 256 of each; in e-tex
> 65535 are available.  it was always easy to run out of registers in
> original tex -- pictex was a good candidate for that; it wasn't just
> musixtex.

Since I find PICTEX.TEX from 06/11/1989 in my EMTEX distribution, I believe
that in this distribution from 1997, the same as Daniel's, the register 
limit had already been expanded, but Daniel was not aware of this!

Jean-Pierre Coulon                  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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