Re: Early-2014 Macbook Air and Linux Mint Cinnamon

On Thu, 25 Jun 2026 11:26:47 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:

> On 2026-06-25 03:13, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>> 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”?
>
> It just was so. The ALU wrote to the accumulator, not to other
> registers.

There was also an older usage where “register” was a synonym for
“memory location”. You’re not using it in that sense, are you?