Re: Early-2014 Macbook Air and Linux Mint Cinnamon

Lawrence D’Oliveiro <[email protected]>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.vintage,comp.os.linux.misc
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Sun, 21 Jun 2026 09:35:34 +0200, Marc Haber wrote:

> This thread for some reason gave me 40 year old 6502 vibes, where the
> only fully usable register is called the accumulator.

“Accumulator” was a common synonym for “register” in the early days.

E.g. I think the PDP-10 had 4 accumulators. Their assembly-language
names were AC0, AC1, AC2, AC3.
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