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 Wed, 24 Jun 2026 12:07:47 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:

> 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.

Which one? What’s the point of having one where “you cannot do
operations on it”?
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