Ken Shirriff on Nostr: In the 1980s, if you wanted your IBM PC to be faster for spreadsheets or CAD, you ...
In the 1980s, if you wanted your IBM PC to be faster for spreadsheets or CAD, you could buy the Intel 8087 floating-point chip. Internally, the chip runs special code called microcode. We opened the chip, extracted the microcode, and are figuring out how it works. 1/n
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