Re: [9fans] MMIXWare Plan 9

["J.R. Mauro" <jrm8005@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Anthony Sorace <anothy@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.
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> On 2009-03-09, Paweł Lasek <pawel.lasek@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 14:35, xiantingmanbu <xiantingmanbu@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 #lisp@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."
>>
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