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Cake day: May 21st, 2021

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  • MMIX is created by Prof. Knuth purely for expressing his algorithms. Back then C++ and Java were the latest, hottest sh… (and would soon be outdated themselves). Prof. Knuth didn’t like C++ and general programming language fashion. So he invented MMIX. It was never meant to be implemented in real HW.

    I don’t know whst’s wrong with the other CPU architectures you listed. I especially wonder why Sparc wasn’t used more.