Re: [f-cpu] Re: Floating-Point?

[Ben Franchuk <bfranchuk@jetnet.ab.ca>]

Yann Guidon wrote:
> the 8087 was one of the first 80-bit IEEE computing chips.
> with a 80387, you could do 64-bit quite quickly.

That was one nice feature ( very few mind you ) of the intel chips.
Still most people I think did not have a math co-processer until
after they got in the late 386/early 486 era. Most number crunching
stuff needed lots of memory too. Raytracing comes to mind.
Ben.


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