mixvm(1)

mixvm1

The mix virtual machine simulator

Usage

mixvm [{-d | --dump}] [{-e | --emacs}] [{-q | --noinit}] [{-r | --run}] [{-t | --time}] [MIX_FILE]

mixvm [{-h | --help}] [{-u | --usage}] [{-v | --version}]

Overview

The mixvm utility is a text-mode simulator for the MIX virtual machine. The MIX is Donald Knuth's mythical computer, described in the first volume of The Art of Computer Programming, which is programmed using MIXAL, the MIX assembly language.

Environment

The operation of the mixvm utility is not affected by its environment.

Exit status

The mixvm utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

Examples

Run the MIX virtual machine in interactive mode:

mixvm

Load a MIXAL program and run it in the MIX virtual machine:

mixvm -r hello.mix

Releases

8 releases since Debian 3.0 (Woody); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 3.0
  2. 7–13

Standards

No standards documentation was harmed in the process of creating mixvm.

Author

The mixvm utility was developed by Jose A. Ortega Ruiz, Pieter E. J. Pareit, Philip E. King, Michael Scholz and Sergey Poznyakoff. This manual page was written by Peter Pentchev ⟨[email protected]⟩ for the Debian Project.

From mdk 1.3.0+dfsg-4 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.