A simulator for a MIX computer. The MIX computer is a theoretical computer from Knuth's "The Art of Computer Programming" that is used to implement algorithms in the book. This implementation simulates the computer and aims to be readable and easy to maintain (at the cost of performance in places). While there is a reasonably extensive test suite this should still be considered an "alpha" level project at this time. The specification for writing a program that the simulator can accept can be found in section 1.3.2 (of volume 1) of "The Art of Computer Programming".

This project uses uv for dependency management and entry points. To install run

pip install uv

One uv is installed you can use the mixsim command to run MIX programs

uv run mixsim example-programs/primes.mix