ot? Simulate something....

[woodelf]

Ron Hudson wrote:

>
> On Mar 7, 2005, at 5:32 PM, Tom Jennings wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Ron Hudson wrote:
>>
>>> I am beginning to write a simulator for a "microcomputer", it will 
>>> feature a
>>> curses (terminal) front panel. it will be a 12 bit machine. You will 
>>> be able to
>>> issue commands to the simulator without stopping the program (for 
>>> mounting
>>> virtual paper tapes, printing to files etc)
>>
>>
>> Cool! If you haven't, check out Donald Knuth's fictional MIX
>> computer.  It's a mishmash of a bunch of "contemporary" (1970s)
>> architectures. The cool thing about is there is SOFTWARE written
>> for it, even though it never physically existed.
>>
>> There was no physical representation, if you were to make one,
>> it would add to the coolness of it.
>
>
> Cool is it 12 bit, best expressed as 3 hex digits?
>
No ... I think it was decimal or base 64 depending on the computer  
instruction
set used. I like decmal machines but thay don't make decimal addressed 
memory.
 His lateset version is risc machine, a machine I don't like because 
they have too
low a instruction density. Now does it really matter if you use hex or 
octal or what
ever?
Ben alias woodelf