RFC 473

MIX and MIXAL?

📅 published February 1973, from ietf

RFC 473: MIX and MIXAL? 💖

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  • Author: D. Walden, BBN-NET 🦋
  • Number: RFC 473 (NIC 14811) ✨
  • Date: 28 February 1973 🌸
  • Category, obsoletes, updates: none are listed in this document 💅

The Big Question 🧚

Okay so, Knuth invented this hypothetical computer called MIX, plus a language for it called MIXAL. Walden is asking: is there an interpreter for MIX, and an assembler for MIXAL, running on any ARPA Network Host? 👑

If not, wouldn't some Network Host just make them available, cheaply? 🥺 It would honestly be a huge service to everyone studying "Art of Computer Programming" 📚🫶 no cap, that's main character energy 💜

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