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Deep dive into the Intel 8087's floating-point arithmetic
Original: The Intel 8087 chip: floating-point addition and subtraction
A detailed technical explainer examines how Intel's 8087 math coprocessor performs floating-point addition and subtraction, including its use of microcode and its 80-bit internal format. Readers with an interest in chip design and computing history are discussing the breakdown of a chip that, launched in 1980, set the standards still behind floating-point math in modern processors.
Why now: Retro-computing and hardware design audiences are drawn to in-depth reverse engineering of a historically important chip.
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