On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Anthony Sorace <ano...@gmail.com> wrote: > i'm not sure whether the MMIX stuff was a fresh effort or an extension
MMIX is totally new, a more modern, RISC-y assembly language. Knuth worked with Hennessy on it, and it shows (not in a bad way, of course). AFAIK it's all new code since it's so drastically different. > 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." >> >> > >
