Re: Early-2014 Macbook Air and Linux Mint Cinnamon
Lawrence D’Oliveiro <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.mac.vintage,comp.os.linux.misc |
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| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Wed, 24 Jun 2026 21:38:09 GMT, Scott Alfter wrote: > 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. Hence the qualification “index” on those particular “registers”.