Re: Early-2014 Macbook Air and Linux Mint Cinnamon
[email protected] (Scott Alfter)
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In article <[email protected]>, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]> 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. An accumulator is a register, but registers aren't necessarily accumulators. The 6502 has one accumulator (A) and two index registers (X and Y). Arithmetic and logic operations work on the accumulator, but not on the index registers. -- _/_ / v \ Scott Alfter (remove the obvious to send mail) (IIGS( https://alfter.us/ Top-posting! \_^_/ >What's the most annoying thing on Usenet?