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What was the last CPU that did not have the x87 floating-point unit built in? The 2019 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results Are InWere there 8086 coprocessors other than the 8087?What was the first CPU with exposed pipeline?What's the relationship between early 90s Pentium microprocessor and today's Intel designs?Is there any reason to chose ES, FS, or GS over the others in real mode?How do you put a 286 in Protected Mode?Why not use fractions instead of floating point?Which pre-IEEE computers had a single precision FPU and implemented double precision floats in software?How did the 8086 interface with the 8087 FPU coprocessor?How did people program for Consoles with multiple CPUs?What can an 8086 CPU do if an x87 floating-point coprocessor is attached to it?

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What is the motivation for a law requiring 2 parties to consent for recording a conversation Is it okay to consider publishing in my first year of PhD? Can we generate random numbers using irrational numbers like π and e? Is bread bad for ducks? What is this sharp, curved notch on my knife for? Geography at the pixel level Can you cast a spell on someone in the Ethereal Plane, if you are on the Material Plane and have the True Seeing spell active? What force causes entropy to increase? Why can't devices on different VLANs, but on the same subnet, communicate? How did passengers keep warm on sail ships? How to support a colleague who finds meetings extremely tiring? What can I do if neighbor is blocking my solar panels intentionally What is preventing me from simply constructing a hash that's lower than the current target? Are spiders unable to hurt humans, especially very small spiders? Short story: man watches girlfriend's spaceship entering a ...