MIXVM(1)

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✨ MIXVM ✨

okay so bestie, gather round, because today we're talking about mixvm — the MIX virtual machine simulator, from the General Commands Manual (that's section 1, iykyk). it's giving legendary, it's giving retro, it's giving "your grandprofessor's computer but make it a terminal program." 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

mixvm — the MIX virtual machine simulator 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

mixvm [-d | --dump] [-e | --emacs] [-q | --noinit] [-r | --run]
      [-t | --time] [MIX_FILE]
mixvm [-h | --help] [-u | --usage] [-v | --version]

so like, every one of those flags rolls up in a short flavour and a long flavour, both right there in the synopsis, no cap. and there's a MIX_FILE slot waiting for you at the end of the first line, bestie. 🦋

🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

okay so the mixvm utility is a text-mode simulator for the MIX virtual machine. that's the whole vibe. ✨

and what even is MIX, you ask? it's Donald Knuth's mythical computer, described in the first volume of The Art of Computer Programming. mythical!! a computer that's basically a legend!! 👑

and you program it using MIXAL, the MIX assembly language. so iconic. so vintage. so hers. 🎀

🫶 ENVIRONMENT 🫶

ngl this is the shortest section and honestly? slay. the operation of the mixvm utility is not affected by its environment. that's it. that's the whole tea. your env vars can do whatever, mixvm is unbothered, moisturized, in her lane. 💅

💀 EXIT STATUS 💀

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

so like — zero means we ate, and anything bigger than zero means something went sideways. 🙈

🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

Run the MIX virtual machine in interactive mode:

mixvm

just her, just vibes, just the terminal. ✨

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

mixvm -r hello.mix

look at that. hello.mix said hello. main character energy fr fr. 🌟

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

the whole squad. go say hi. 🫶

🧚 STANDARDS 🧚

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

genuinely the most considerate sentence in any manpage ever. the standards docs are safe, y'all, nobody got hurt, we're all fine here. 🍓

💜 AUTHOR 💜

the mixvm utility was developed by Jose A. Ortega Ruiz, Pieter E. J. Pareit, Philip E. King, Michael Scholz and Sergey Poznyakoff. absolute legends, all five of them, no notes. 👑

and this manual page was written by Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> for the Debian Project. 🎀

ok and for the sign-off, because every icon needs a proper outro: this page is a Debian joint, dated February 15, 2011, and it lives in the MIXVM(1) slot of the manual. periodt. 💖✨
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