Design problems in emulating the MIX computer on the Microdata 1600

Abstract

This paper presents an overview of an emulator for the MIX computer written in Microdata 1600 microcode. The MIX computer thus emulated is a variant of the original MIX computer as described in Volume 1 of The Art of Computer Programming by Donald Knuth. Basic changes involve the utilization of 8 bit bytes along with the ASCII character code.