The Intel 8087 chip: floating-point addition and subtraction

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• kens 1 hour ago
  Author here with another 8087 article. What part of the 8087 should I look at next?
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  • n923263 57 minutes ago
    Minor erratum: "1.1 (binary) × 2^8 is 304" should be 384.
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    • kens 56 minutes ago
      Thanks! I guess I didn't have my glasses on when I read that number :-)
  • jakzurr 36 minutes ago
    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 24 minutes ago
    Have you already covered how the decoding of instructions is shared with the 8086?