From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <509071940903091257k285ef2d0l560a6857811b597d@mail.gmail.com> References: <9f3897940903091016v45290801n85bc35025e397798@mail.gmail.com> <509071940903091257k285ef2d0l560a6857811b597d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 16:12:23 -0400 Message-ID: <3aaafc130903091312l4a1503d3j1a4cd678cf8d1739@mail.gmail.com> From: "J.R. Mauro" To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] MMIXWare Plan 9 Topicbox-Message-UUID: b75f747e-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Anthony Sorace 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, Pawe=B3 Lasek wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 14:35, xiantingmanbu wr= ote: >>> How to port MMIXWare into Plan 9? =A0Has anyone done it? >>> >> =A0Porting 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. >> -- >> Pawe=B3 Lasek >> On #lisp@freenode.net >> " But the systems seem so darned complicated. I see the wife >> unit here sitting around with winXP and it seems very complicated." >> >> > >