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The Intel 8087 chip: floating-point addition and subtraction

37 points pwg 1 hour ago 5 comments

kens 1 hour ago | parent

Author here with another 8087 article. What part of the 8087 should I look at next?

n923263 58 minutes ago | parent

Minor erratum: "1.1 (binary) × 2^8 is 304" should be 384.

kens 57 minutes ago | parent

Thanks! I guess I didn't have my glasses on when I read that number :-)

jakzurr 37 minutes ago | parent

righto.com has been great reading. None of my friends wanted to pay for an 8087, but I can still remember getting out of school (for 2nd time) and saving up for the 486DX after 3 others got them. After that, well, it's been quite a ride.

bonzini 25 minutes ago | parent

Have you already covered how the decoding of instructions is shared with the 8086?