MMIX
- Date
- 1999 (diseño) / 2011 (edición final) · confidence medium
- Place
- Stanford, California, United States
- Credited to
- Donald Knuth
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
A 64-bit RISC instruction-set architecture designed by Donald Knuth to illustrate machine-level programming in his The Art of Computer Programming series, replacing the hypothetical 1960s-style MIX computer.
What it led to
- A standard teaching tool in computer architecture courses
- MMIX simulator and assembler implementations
- Continuation of the didactic approach begun with MIX in the 1960s