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+Welcome to GNU MDK.
+
+GNU MDK is part of the GNU project [0].
+
+MDK stands for MIX Development Kit, and provides tools for developing
+and executing, in a MIX virtual machine, MIXAL programs.
+
+The MIX is Donald Knuth's mythical computer, described in the first
+volume of The Art of Computer Programming, which is programmed using
+MIXAL, the MIX assembly language.
+
+MDK includes a MIXAL assembler (mixasm) and a MIX virtual machine
+(mixvm) with a command line interface. In addition, a GTK+ GUI to
+mixvm, called gmixvm, is provided; and, in case you are an Emacs guy,
+you can try misc/mixvm.el, which allows running mixvm inside an Emacs
+GUD buffer.
+
+Using these interfaces, you can debug your MIXAL programs at source
+code level, and read/modify the contents of all the components of the
+MIX computer (including block devices, which are simultated using the
+file system).
+
+Project homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/mdk/mdk.html
+
+GNU MDK is free software. Please see the file COPYING for details.
+
+For documentation, please see the files in the doc subdirectory.
+
+For building and installation instructions please see the INSTALL file.
+
+For sample MIXAL programs, please see the samples subdirectory.
+
+For translations (MDK uses GNU's gettext), please see the po subdirectory[1].
+
+--
+[0] To learn more about GNU, the FSF and its goals, please visit
+ http://www.gnu.org.
+
+[1] New translations are welcome. If you'd like to contribute one,
+ please contact the author, jao@gnu.org.
+
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+$Id: README,v 1.3 2002/04/08 00:29:59 jao Exp $ \ No newline at end of file