Что (кто) такое ignition accumulator - определение
![Front panel of an [[IBM 701]] computer with lights displaying the accumulator and other registers](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/IBM 701console.jpg?width=200 "Front panel of an [[IBM 701]] computer with lights displaying the accumulator and other registers")
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Википедия
In a computer's central processing unit (CPU), the accumulator is a register in which intermediate arithmetic logic unit results are stored.
Without a register like an accumulator, it would be necessary to write the result of each calculation (addition, multiplication, shift, etc.) to main memory, perhaps only to be read right back again for use in the next operation.
Access to main memory is slower than access to a register like an accumulator because the technology used for the large main memory is slower (but cheaper) than that used for a register. Early electronic computer systems were often split into two groups, those with accumulators and those without.
Modern computer systems often have multiple general-purpose registers that can operate as accumulators, and the term is no longer as common as it once was. However, to simplify their design, a number of special-purpose processors still use a single accumulator.
