Re: [9fans] MMIXWare Plan 9

2009-03-09 Thread Lee Duhem
2009/3/9 xiantingmanbu : > 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

Re: [9fans] MMIXWare Plan 9

2009-03-09 Thread J.R. Mauro
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Anthony Sorace 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

Re: [9fans] MMIXWare Plan 9

2009-03-09 Thread 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 wrote: > On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 14:35, xiantingmanbu wrote: >> Ho

Re: [9fans] MMIXWare Plan 9

2009-03-09 Thread Paweł Lasek
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 14:35, xiantingmanbu 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 e

[9fans] MMIXWare Plan 9

2009-03-09 Thread xiantingmanbu
How to port MMIXWare into Plan 9? Has anyone done it?