[9fans] MMIXWare Plan 9

[9fans] MMIXWare Plan 9

[xiantingmanbu]

How to port MMIXWare into Plan 9?  Has anyone done it?

Re: [9fans] MMIXWare Plan 9

[Paweł Lasek]

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."

Re: [9fans] MMIXWare Plan 9

[Anthony Sorace]

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, 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."
>
>

Re: [9fans] MMIXWare Plan 9

[J.R. Mauro]

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.
>
> 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."
>>
>>
>
>

Re: [9fans] MMIXWare Plan 9

[Lee Duhem]

2009/3/9 xiantingmanbu <xiantingmanbu@gmail.com>:
> How to port MMIXWare into Plan 9?  Has anyone done it?

I have doen it before, but now it's a little out-dated:
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/lee/mmix-20060918.tgz

lee