Re: Early-2014 Macbook Air and Linux Mint Cinnamon

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.

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