Hello, I am far from a smart person but I still wanted to give reading The Art Of Computer Programming Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms by Donald Knuth a try but I don't understand at all how MIX computer he talks about works.
Are there any other resources that make it easier to understand the contents of this book?
sargstuff•1d ago
MIX/MMIX home page : https://mmix.cs.hm.edu/
MMIX supplement : https://mmix.cs.hm.edu/supplement/index.html
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Per GNU MIX development kit (mdk)[0] intro "... a set of utilities for developing programs using Donald Knuth’s MIX mythical computer and MIXAL, its assembly language." The tutorial goes over architecture, instruction set, MIXAL related stuff and basic "getting started".
Something a bit above "bare metal programming"; Escape is an OS that runs on GIMMIX as a simulator for MMIX.[7]
DXL is a similar architechture.[1]
MMIX is more 'current'[2] aka easier to find tutorial information on RISC architectures.
Few 'intro to computer architecture'[3] -- depends on how want to approach. aka, high level overview, how things work 'bitwise" vs. abstract level one step above the bits, "stack"/instructional queue
A RISC Computer for the Third Millennium[4] related MIX/MMIX resources[5]
Random search engine 'computer architure' online courses pick[6]
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[0](June/04/2025) : https://www.gnu.org/software/mdk/manual/html_node/index.html... GNU MIX Development Kit (MDK) : https://www.gnu.org/software/mdk/
[1] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DLX
[2] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMIX
[3] : https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-introductory-texts-o...
[4] : https://github.com/ascherer/mmix
[5] : https://mmix.cs.hm.edu/links.html
[6] :https://github.com/Developer-Y/cs-video-courses#computer-org...
[7] : Escape : https://github.com/Nils-TUD/Escape GIMMX : https://homepages.thm.de/~hg53/gimmix/