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		WalterBright 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The stack circuitry of the Intel 8087 floating poi... > I question whether this was a monopoly move on Intel's part Well, I was happy about that because I no longer had to deal with switches to generated x87 code or emulate it.

bonzini 5 months ago [–]

Only to later add switches that chose between x87 and SSE? :)

WalterBright 5 months ago | [–]

Sadly, yes. Too bad that 80 bit floating point is essentially dead.

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