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Knuth also starts his book by defining his own assembly language and computer architecture.
by 908B64B197 6y ago
Knuth also starts his book by defining his own assembly language and computer architecture.
- Jtsummers 6y agoBecause at the time he wrote it there wasn't a good standard or sufficiently common one that had the properties he wanted to use for exploring algorithms. See MMIX for something closer to a modern architecture than the original MIX.
- 908B64B197 6y agoI meant that he clearly had hardware in mind when writing his algorithms.