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Conditions in the Intel 8087 floating-point chip's microcode

64 pointsby diogotozzilast Thursday at 1:23 PM13 commentsview on HN

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kenstoday at 6:53 PM

Author here if anyone has questions...

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dborehamtoday at 7:17 PM

Until I read this I did not know that 1970s microprocessors had register renaming. Feel a little cheated, thinking for all those years that they were actually moving the bits.

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0xsn3ktoday at 7:20 PM

super cool! i wonder how difficult it would be to recreate the entire chip at logic gate level in, say, VHDL or Verilog

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