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authorDavid E. O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>1996-12-25 12:13:02 +0000
committerDavid E. O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>1996-12-25 12:13:02 +0000
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Mixal is a version the assembler and interpreter for Donald Knuth's
mythical MIX computer, defined in: Donald E. Knuth, _The Art of Computer Programming, Vol. 1: Fundamental Algorithms_. Addison-Wesley, 1973 (2nd ed.) Some of us were playing with it at school... so I made a port of it.
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+Mixal is a version the assembler and interpreter for Donald Knuth's
+mythical MIX computer, defined in:
+
+ Donald E. Knuth, _The Art of Computer Programming, Vol. 1: Fundamental
+ Algorithms_. Addison-Wesley, 1973 (2nd ed.)
+
+
+This preliminary release doesn't do floating point and has little
+documentation as yet, but it works well enough to be used in conjunction
+with the book.