Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E. R." Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.vintage,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Early-2014 Macbook Air and Linux Mint Cinnamon Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2026 11:26:47 +0200 Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <1115q51$la$1@dont-email.me> <11165cp$3uc0$1@dont-email.me> <1117u54$iqhs$1@dont-email.me> <1118486$h4pm$1@news1.tnib.de> <111fbuv$2lq9d$8@dont-email.me> <111hvc9$3e43k$5@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net OgdwUJrjrpBDLmWAhJZ+7QTR3CHjF7FPGQUVlR1VEXT1bpP+1H Cancel-Lock: sha1:0vX02YrD9PS41IWXsxLMaEvT8A0= sha256:R5wAc+i7un70iNUM0n+DZEOj8Ra0XvxE+DtZp+nul9w= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: <111hvc9$3e43k$5@dont-email.me> Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.vintage:1750 comp.os.linux.misc:88394 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. -- Cheers, Carlos E.R. ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;