5 Dec
2023
5 Dec
'23
15:43
* Per Jessen <per@opensuse.org> [12-05-23 06:12]:
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.
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
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