Fun fact: the simplified ISA and language for this machine were designed by David May[1], who was the architect of the highly-parallel Transputer[2] in the 1980

Fun fact: the simplified ISA and language for this machine were designed by David May[1], who was the architect of the highly-parallel Transputer[2] in the 1980s. The Hex machine inherits a few features from the Transputer, including the PFIX and NFIX instructions - a rather unique way of loading arbitrary-length registers using only instructions that have a fixed 4-bit operand. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_May_(computer_scientist) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_May_(computer_scientist) [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transputer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transputer