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See: [https://yassinebridi.github.io/asm-docs/8086_instruction_set.html Complete 8086 instruction set] [https://www.righto.com/2023/08/datapoint-to-8086.html Tracing the roots of the 8086 instruction set to the Datapoint 2200 minicomputer]
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== 8087 FPU ==
Intel introduced the 8087 chip in 1980 to improve floating-point performance on 8086/8088 computers.
Since early microprocessors were designed to operate on integers, arithmetic on floating point numbers was slow, and transcendental operations such as trig or logarithms were even worse. But the 8087 co-processor greatly improved floating point speed, up to 100 times faster.
The 8087's architecture became absorbed into later Intel processors.
See: [https://www.righto.com/2018/08/inside-die-of-intels-8087-coprocessor.html Inside the die] [https://www.righto.com/2018/09/two-bits-per-transistor-high-density.html High-density ROM] [https://www.righto.com/2020/05/extracting-rom-constants-from-8087-math.html Extracting ROM constants] [https://www.righto.com/2020/05/die-analysis-of-8087-math-coprocessors.html Fast bit shifter] 8087 FPU reverse engineered
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