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MIX is Donald Knuth's mythical computer as described in his monumental work
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The Art Of Computer Programming. As any of its real counterparts, the MIX
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features registers, memory cells, an overflow toggle, comparison flags,
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input-output devices, and a set of binary instructions executable by its
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virtual CPU. You can programme the MIX using an assembly language called
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MIXAL, the MIX Assembly Language.
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The MIX Development Kit offers an emulation of MIX and MIXAL. The current
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version of MDK includes the following applications:
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- mixasm A MIXAL compiler, which translates your source files into binary
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ones, executable by the MIX virtual machine.
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- mixvm A MIX virtual machine which is able to run and debug compiled MIXAL
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programs, using a command line interface with readline's line editting
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capabilities.
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- gmixvm A MIX virtual machine with a GTK+ GUI which allows you running and
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debugging your MIXAL programs through a nice graphical interface.
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- mixvm.el An elisp program which allows you to run mixvm within an Emacs
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GUD window, simultaneously viewing your MIXAL source file in another
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buffer.
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WWW: http://www.gnu.org/software/mdk/mdk.html
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