Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!texbell!sugar!ficc!karl From: karl@ficc.uu.net (karl lehenbauer) Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted Subject: Re: Want to run MIX examples in Knuth's books (repost) Message-ID: <5745@ficc.uu.net> Date: 17 Aug 89 12:57:32 GMT References: <385@maytag.waterloo.edu> Organization: Ferranti International Controls Lines: 17 In article <385@maytag.waterloo.edu>, lhf@aries5 (Luiz H. deFigueiredo) writes: > I wrote: > >Does anyone have/know about a mix interpreter and/or mixal assembler? > >I'd like a copy (c source if possible) > >(MIX is Knuth's machine that appears in The Art of Computer Programming) There were a whole pile of them on punch decks in the basement of Lindley Hall at Indiana University a few years back. It was a project for somebody's class. They were all written in TI980 assembly, though. I thought everybody including Knuth agreed that MIX may have been relevant to its time (implementations of the various functions were often, maybe usually, done in assembly) but that, these days, high level languages are the way to go for 'most everything, like describing and coding algorithms. -- -- uunet!ficc!karl "Have you debugged your wolf today?"