From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <9f3897940903091016v45290801n85bc35025e397798@mail.gmail.com> References: <9f3897940903091016v45290801n85bc35025e397798@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 15:57:46 -0400 Message-ID: <509071940903091257k285ef2d0l560a6857811b597d@mail.gmail.com> From: Anthony Sorace To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] MMIXWare Plan 9 Topicbox-Message-UUID: b75a8ef0-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 i'm not sure whether the MMIX stuff was a fresh effort or an extension 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=C5=82 Lasek wrote: > On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 14:35, xiantingmanbu wro= te: >> How to port MMIXWare into Plan 9? =C2=A0Has 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. > -- > Pawe=C5=82 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." > >