7 Mar
2005
7 Mar
'05
6:48 p.m.
In message <20050307172917.L635 at localhost>, Tom Jennings writes:
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Ron Hudson wrote:
While it doesn't have the same classic factor as MIX, there's
something to be said for his newer MMIX design. It's a pretty
nice design, though being 64-bit it would be a rather bigger
project. Simulators (with video) and assemblers exist. GCC
has even been targeted to it.
Check out:
http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/mmix.html
Brian L. Stuart
I am beginning to write a simulator for a
"microcomputer", it will feature a
curses (terminal) front panel. it will be a 12 bit machine. You will be able to
issue commands to the simulator without stopping the program (for mounting
virtual paper tapes, printing to files etc)
Cool! If you haven't, check out Donald Knuth's fictional MIX
computer. It's a mishmash of a bunch of "contemporary" (1970s)
architectures. The cool thing about is there is SOFTWARE written
for it, even though it never physically existed.
There was no physical representation, if you were to make one,
it would add to the coolness of it.