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.TH MIX 1 .SH NAME mix \- .B MIX assembler and emulator .SH SYNOPSIS .B games/mix [ .B -g ] [ .I file ... ] .SH DESCRIPTION .I Mix is an assembler and emulator for Donald Knuth's fictitious .B MIX architecture. The command assembles the named .B MIXAL files into memory and then presents a command prompt to control an emulated .B MIX machine. The .B -g option causes the emulator immediately to run a complete assembled .B MIX program and exits when the emulator halts. .PP The following commands are accepted: .TP .B addr[(a:b)] Print the value at .I addr. An optional field specification is given by .I (a:b). .TP .B a [< file] Start the MIXAL assembler. The assembler will begin assembling at the address after the last assembled instruction. If no file is given, the assembler will accept instructions from the console. .TP .B b addr Set or unset a breakpoint at .I addr. .TP .B c Resets the .B MIX machine to a fresh state by clearing all memory and registers. .TP .B d addr Disassemble the instruction at .I addr. .TP .B o addr Print the alphanumeric .B MIX word at .I addr. .TP .B o(addr, d) Print .I d alphanumeric mix words starting at .I addr. .TP .B r*[(a:b)] Print the value in register .I r* where * is one of a, x, ax, j, or 1-6. An optional field specification is given by .I (a:b). .TP .B s Step through one instruction of the emulated .B MIX machine. .TP .B g Start the emulated .B MIX machine at the instruction specified by the .B END pseudo-instruction. .TP .B x Quit the emulator/assembler. .PP The .I addr field of the above instructions must be an integer between 0 and 3999 inclusive. A number-sign (#) or an asterisk (*) at the beginning of a line starts a comment which extends to the end of the line. .SH SOURCE .B /sys/src/games/mix .SH "SEE ALSO" .nf Donald Knuth, ``The Art of Computer Programming'', Volume 1. Section 1.3 .PP .B /sys/src/games/mix/examples .SH BUGS As opposed to Knuth's specification, the .B ALF pseudo-instruction takes as argument five .B MIX characters surrounded by quotation marks. Unresolved forward references are assembled to 0 instead of to a location determined by the .B END psuedo-instruction. .PP The magnetic tapes and drum units are not implemented. .PP Comments are handled as described above and not exactly as Knuth specifies.