In the Absence of a GoTo Statement: Newbie needs menu-launcher to choose amongst sub-programs

[Emile van Sebille]

I guess the good news is that I don't recognize *all* of those! ;-)

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Emile van Sebille
emile at fenx.com

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"Jose' Sebrosa" <sebrosa at artenumerica.com> wrote in message
news:3AD7A517.4464B83E at artenumerica.com...
> Ron Stephens wrote:
> >
> > What is "MIX"????
>
> MIX is a computer (or its assembly language):
>
> """
> MIX is the world's first polyunsatured computer. Like most machines, it
has an
> identifying number -- the 1009.  This number was found by taking 16 actual
> computers very similar to MIX and on which MIX could easily be simulated,
then
> averaging their numbers with equal weight:
>
>  INT ((360 + 650 + 709 + 7070 + U3 + SS80 + 1107 + 1604 + G20 + B220 +
S2000 +
> 920 + 601 + H800 + PDP-4 + II)/16) = 1009
>
> The same number may also be obtained in a simpler way by taking Roman
numerals.
> """
>
>  -Donald E. Knuth, "The Art of Computer Programming",
>                    Vol. 1, p.124
>
>
> You can look for "MIXware" here:
> http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/taocp.html
>
> or for lots of stuff here:
> http://www.google.com/search?q=MIX+knuth
>
> Anyway, you probably don't need to know unless you worship Knuth. But
hei!,
> what kind of person would not worship Knuth? :-)
>
> Sebrosa