Re: Early-2014 Macbook Air and Linux Mint Cinnamon
"Carlos E. R." <[email protected]>
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On 2026-06-24 03:30, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> 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.
An accumulator is not a register. It is different, you can do operations
on it. Maybe on current processors the difference is not that big.
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Cheers,
Carlos E.R.
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