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MIXAL(1)							Mixal user's manual							  MIXAL(1)

NAME

       mixal - a load-and-go MIX assembler

SYNOPSIS

       mixal [ file ...  ]

DESCRIPTION

       Mixal  is  an  implementation of the hypothetical MIX computer and its assembly language called MIXAL.  The computer was designed by Donald
       Knuth for use in his monumental and yet to be finished book series The Art of Computer Programming.  All programs and all programming exer-
       cises in the book are written in the MIXAL language.

       This  implementation  is  a  load-and-go  assembler,  meaning that you provide it with a MIXAL program source, which it translates into MIX
       machine code, which it promptly executes by acting as a MIX emulator.

       You give Mixal zero or more program source files in the command line, which the program interprets.   If  you  give  it	no  arguments,	it
       expects	to  find  a  program  in  the standard input stream.  After the program has executed, the final state of the machine registers are
       printed to the standard output stream.

       The card punch and line printer devices are connected to the standard input and output stream, respectively.  Console input and output  are
       connected  to  standard	input and output, and the disk devices are connected to files named diskN in the current directory, where N is the
       device number.  Those files are created on demand.

BUGS

       This MIXAL implementation does not do floating-point.  The tape devices are not implemented.

AUTHOR

       This MIXAL implementation was designed and written by Darius Bacon, and then ported to Unixish systems and debugged  by	Eric  S.  Raymond.
       This  version includes corrections to multiplication and division by Larry Gately.  This manual page was written for Debian by Antti-Juhani
       Kaijanaho, with changes by Darius Bacon.

SEE ALSO

       The files /usr/share/doc/mixal/READ.ME and /usr/share/doc/mixal/NOTES.gz contain some information about this MIXAL implementation.  Be sure
       to read /usr/share/doc/mixal/README.Debian, too.

       A  description  of  the MIX system and the MIXAL language can be found in Donald E. Knuth's book The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 1:
       Fundamental   Algorithms;   3rd	 Edition   (Addison-Wesley   1997).    (Or   see   the	 home	 page	 at    http://www-cs-faculty.stan-
       ford.edu/%7Eknuth/taocp.html.)

Debian project							    18 May 2003 							  MIXAL(1)

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DERIVATIONS(7)						Derivations of Applied Mathematics					    DERIVATIONS(7)

NAME

       derivations - book: Derivations of Applied Mathematics

DESCRIPTION

       Understandably,	program sources rarely derive the mathematical formulas they use.  Not wishing to take the formulas on faith, a user might
       nevertheless reasonably wish to see such formulas somewhere derived.

       Derivations of Applied Mathematics is a book which documents and derives many of the mathematical formulas and methods implemented in  free
       software  or used in science and engineering generally.	It documents and derives the Taylor series (used to calculate trigonometrics), the
       Newton-Raphson method (used to calculate square roots), the Pythagorean theorem (used to calculate distances) and many others.

READING THE BOOK

       Among other ways, you can read the book on your computer screen by opening the file /usr/share/doc/derivations/derivations.ps.gz  with  the
       gv(1) program under X(7).  To print the book on a standard postscript printer, just zcat(1) then lpr(1) the same file.

FILES

       /usr/share/doc/derivations/derivations.ps.gz
	      the book in postscript format
       /usr/share/doc/derivations/derivations.pdf.gz
	      the book in PDF

BUGS

       The book is a work in progress.

AUTHOR

       The  book  and  this manpage are written by Thaddeus H. Black, who also maintains the Debian package derivations in which they are distrib-
       uted.  Users who need to contact the author in his role as Debian package maintainer can reach him at <thb@debian.org>.	However,  most	e-
       mail will naturally be about the book itself: this should be sent to <thb@derivations.org>.

COPYLEFT

       Copyright (C) 1983-2010 Thaddeus H. Black.

       The  book,  this manpage and the entire derivations distribution are free software.  You can redistribute them and/or modify them under the
       terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2.

SEE ALSO

       gv(1) [gv], zcat(1) [gzip], psselect(1) [psutils], lpr(1) [lpr], octave(1) [octave]

Thaddeus H. Black						   10 March 2010						    DERIVATIONS(7)
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