Questions tagged [80387]
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Is it possible for a 287 system to emulate 387 opcodes in hardware?
The 8087 and 287 FPUs were designed before the IEEE 754 standard was released. Because of this, they contain some instructions which are not compliant with it. When the 387 was released in 1987, it ...
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Did the ARM-1 really outperform the 387?
According to a comment on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31985142
The first benchmarks indicated the plain Archimedes had higher FP throughput than a 16MHz 386 with a 387.
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How is the ‘Coprocessor segment overrun’ exception supposed to be handled?
The Intel 80386 CPU didn't have an on-board x87 FPU (maybe with the exception of some non-Intel clones). It was, however, able to use either a 80287 or 80387 as an external FPU. When the x87 FPU ...
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80387 transistor count
In 1985, Intel released the 80386, a particularly complex and sophisticated microprocessor for its day, consisting of 275,000 transistors, a rather large number for the day.
How many transistors went ...
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What is this socket for in 386 notebook motherboard
What is this socket for on 386 motherboard? I have no manual, no documentation and no resources readily available for this machine (Commodore C386SX-LT).
Source: Probably oldcrap.org
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x87 trigonometric instructions
The 8087 has instructions FPTAN and FPATAN, which are Partial Tangent and Partial Arctangent. The "partial" is presumably is to do with the range of the operands. For FPTAN the operand must be less ...
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