5 Dec
2023
5 Dec
'23
11:48
On 2023-12-05 12:11, Per Jessen wrote:
On Tue, 5 Dec 2023 12:01:51 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Looong ago, when you had to buy the coprocesor separately,
80387 you mean? That was a loooong time ago indeed.
Or 8087 :-)
I remember the curiosity that the types available to the coprocesor did not match the ieee types, back then. Maybe the Intel people thought differently.
As far as I am aware, the 387 had floating types corresponding to IEEE 754-1985
I think it had those and others of its own. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 15.5 (Laicolasse))