this has been found out for a while but the original photographer is eric hacke

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For more on the 8087's circuitry and the microcode, see my latest article: www.righto.com/2026/10/8087... Credits: I've been working on this with the members of the "Opcode Collective", especially Smartest Blob and @gloriouscow.bsky.social.

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Have you ever thought about how your computer adds and subtracts? It takes a lot of hardware to handle floating-point numbers like 12.34. I opened up Intel's 8087 math coprocessor chip from 1980 to see how it works...

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Although the 8087 chip was complicated, it became popular because its made floating-point operations 100 times faster on the IBM PC and other systems. Its math became the standard (IEEE 754) used by all modern computers, so every time you do math, thank the 8087 chip :-)

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⚡️ "If the United States will support Putin, it's a historic mistake and big tragedy," Zelenskyy warned that Ukraine cannot prevail if the US officially sides with Russia.

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