Re: Polysemy in programming langs (was: Why does the meaning of words change?)

On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 09:29:15PM -0400, John Cowan wrote:

> Yup.  The "accumulator" (AC), for younkers, was the main (and on some
> models the only) register, so-called because it was used to
> accumulate sums.  The PDP-8's instruction set was small enough
> that I still remember all of it:
This is great!  In my computer architecture class I'd been really
wondering about things from before the Intel processors.  Turns out
the PDP-8 architecture bears certain similarities to the pedagogical
Very Simple Processor architecture :)  (They're both AC-based.)

Amanda