i'm not sure whether the MMIX stuff was a fresh effort or an extension of the MIX code, but it might be worth noting that someone (Charles, i think) ported MIX years ago. perhaps a useful starting point.
On 2009-03-09, Paweł Lasek <pawel.la...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 14:35, xiantingmanbu <xiantingma...@gmail.com> wrote: >> How to port MMIXWare into Plan 9? Has anyone done it? >> > Porting wouldn't be hard. I don't remember the code right now (will > look into it when I get home) but probably the only thing you would > have to change would be mmap() to segattach(), or even simple > malloc()-style allocation. Knuth is rather old fashioned, so it might > actually work out of the box with APE, and with little changes with > native libs. > -- > Paweł Lasek > On #l...@freenode.net > "<schme> But the systems seem so darned complicated. I see the wife > unit here sitting around with winXP and it seems very complicated." > >
