Ken Shirriff on Nostr: In 1980, Intel released the 8087 floating-point chip, making math much faster. I'm ...
In 1980, Intel released the 8087 floating-point chip, making math much faster. I'm reverse-engineering this chip, 46 years later. Most of its instructions are implemented in microcode, but some are implemented in hardware. Let's look at the circuitry that decodes instructions and decides what to do...
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