T H E M I X S I M U L A T O R A N D A S S E M B L E R
Chaoji Li<lichaoji@gmail.com>
March 22, 2008
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There are so many MIX simulators all over the world. The reason for this
one is that it is written in perl as a well defined module, aiming to be
reused. People can also use this one as a reference model when testing
their own simulators. I suggest everyone who really wants to read the
programs in TAOCP should implement one by himself, so as to understand
the MIX machine and the MIX instructions better. MIX is also similar to
various machines produced in 1960s. To write the simulator yourself would
be a rewarding trip if you are curious about the history of computer
programming.
This simulator supports almost all instructions, except for float operations.
Card reader/punch and printer are supported.
Disk/tape are partial supported.
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I N S T A L L
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(1) Extract the source tar ball:
tar -xvzf Hardware-Simulator-MIX-<version>.tar.gz
(2) Install "Build" module from CPAN.
(3) Run following commands in the extracted directory:
perl Build.PL
perl Build
perl Build test
perl Build install
Steps (2) and (3) is not required if you only want to play
within the extracted directory.
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D O C U M E N T A T I O N
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perldoc mixsim.pl
perldoc mixasm.pl
perldoc Hardware::Simulator::MIX
perldoc doc/mix.pod
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Q U I C K S T A R T
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In the package directory,
>perl mixasm.pl mixal/primes
Two files will be generated in the current directory.
* primes.lst -- listing files
* primes.crd -- card deck file which can be loaded by mix simulator
>perl mixsim.pl --batch primes.crd
The outputs are:
== PAGE 1 OF 1 ==
FIRST FIVE HUNDRED PRIMES
0002 0233 0547 0877 1229 1597 1993 2371 2749 3187
...
0229 0541 0863 1223 1583 1987 2357 2741 3181 3571
You can also enter the interactive mode. An example session is
shown below.
>perl mixsim.pl primes.crd
M I X S i m u l a t o r
Type 'h' for help messages.
MIX> g 3000
rA: + 00 00 00 00 00 +0
rX: + 00 33 30 30 30 +8775582 3000
rI1: + 00 00 +0000 rI2: - 00 30 -0030
rI3: + 46 56 +3000 rI4: + 00 00 +0000
rI5: + 00 00 +0000 rI6: + 00 00 +0000
rJ: + 00 14 +0014 NO EQ 1325u
3000: IOC 0,0(18)
MIX> g 3029
rA: + 30 30 30 30 30 +511305630 00000
rX: + 30 30 32 32 39 +511313959 00229
rI1: + 00 00 +0000 rI2: + 55 51 +3571
rI3: + 00 19 +0019 rI4: + 31 51 +2035
rI5: + 00 00 +0000 rI6: + 00 00 +0000
rJ: + 47 18 +3026 NO EQ 1183474u
3029: HLT 0,0(2)
MIX> prt
Page 1 of 1
FIRST FIVE HUNDRED PRIMES
0002 0233 0547 0877 1229 1597 1993 2371 2749 3187
....
0229 0541 0863 1223 1583 1987 2357 2741 3181 3571
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