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MMIXware: A RISC Computer for the Third Millennium (1999)

• mci 6y ago
  While this is an interesting book in its genre, I prefer to read actual MMIX code in The MMIX Supplement by Martin Ruckert[0]. The relation between the two books resembles that between, say, Manual of Surgery and Frankenstein, or Teach Yourself Romanian and Dracula. [0] https://www.amazon.com/MMIX-Supplement-Computer-Programming-Volumes/dp/0133992314/ https://www.amazon.com/MMIX-Supplement-Computer-Programming-...
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  • justin66 6y ago
    > The relation between the two books resembles that between, say, Manual of Surgery and Frankenstein, or Teach Yourself Romanian and Dracula. Wtf?
• MaxBarraclough 6y ago
  Can anyone comment on whether MMIX is still used for teaching? I figure it makes more sense to just teach, say, AArch64, these days. I'm not convinced that enough is gained by using an 'idealised' instruction-set, to balance out that it's not seen in the real world. Also, here's the Wikipedia page on MMIX. It's even supported as a target by GCC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMIX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMIX
  • samkater 6y ago
    We used it for our assembly course in 2013. A new professor joined the department the year after I took the class and he taught something else, so from then it depended who was teaching the course that year. It was a small teaching university (we had 5 CS grads my year) that was part of the math department (it has since moved to the school of engineering). I never touched any form of assembly after that course so I don’t think it made a big difference one way or the other. My memory is hazy, but I think there might have been a personal connection between my professor and Knuth - they are roughly from the same generation.