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From: dave@etsu.CMI.COM (David Halonen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: MIX
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Date: 30 Nov 89 21:49:27 GMT
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Reply-To: dave@etsu.cmi.com.UUCP (David Halonen)
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In one of Don Knuth's books, he refers to a language called 'MIX'.
This language is supposed to run
 on some fictious machine, where the
language specifically was designed to take advantage of the machines
architecture.  Such a machine has probably never been built.  However,
since MIX was designed to be a program for teaching, it seems that
someone should have built a simulator for this?  According to the
Knuth's book, this has been done (in 1973).  The obvious question is:
has a MIX simulator ever been created for the Mac?  How about the IBM PC?

thanks,
David Halonen, Center for Machine Intelligence, Electronic Data Systems
Ann Arbor, MI  (313) 995-0900
AppleLink: N0548   Internet: dave@cmi.com