Le Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 05:34:16PM +0200, Luis a écrit :
> On Wed, 2023-06-28 at 15:55 +0100, Conor Williams wrote:
> > hello there 9fans.ers
> >
> > anyone need any UniX programs transferred (port.ed) to Plan9
> >
> > will give u a good price 1cent an hour iff i can get it going...
> >
> > textual programs mostly...
> >
> > Kind Regards
> > will51 (conor.williams@ yada yada c. reply address)
> > ps: I am currently catching up on some good dickens novels and would
> > love some diversionary tactics my the fans of de plan9 oses
>
> What do the plan 9 people think of Donald Knuth's mmix/mmixal?
> (https://www.mmix.cs.hm.edu/).
>
> 9front has a mix emulator (games/mix), but what about mmix, has anyone
> considered porting that? Perhaps the effort required would be too
> large, though.
I would be very surprised if it was difficult to port. You need only
ctangle(1)---it is with kerTeX and kerTeX is available for Plan9---to
obtain the C code, and D.E. Knuth always write his "demonstration"
software in a very OS agnostic way.
At worst, you could compile it under APE.
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