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The Wiki on their page contains more information, including this:

http://millcomputing.com/wiki/Instruction_Set

http://millcomputing.com/instructions.html

http://millcomputing.com/wiki/Architecture

The comp.arch newsgroup and the realwordtech web site contain have plenty of discussion of the Mill. Search for 'Ivan Godard' or 'igodard'.

http://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=147612&curposti...

http://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=147482&curposti...

http://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=147185&curposti...

Some details of the architecture have not been revealed yet due to patents having to be filed for first, so the public information is incomplete in places. Other things have been changed recently. Threading and IPC is an example of the former and the way vectors work is an example of the latter (and maybe also the former). Both are scheduled to be revealed April 10 in Amsterdam:

http://awesomeit.nl/

Some of the encoding details are also not finalized yet or they might be very incompletely described. The basic shape of the beast is there, though.

There is no public emulator but there is almost enough information that you can at least start writing your own for fun.




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