Every time I read about offloading work to the GPU, good old times come to my mind. I vividly remember the Intel 8087, a math co-processor to the Intel 8086 th

Every time I read about offloading work to the GPU, good old times come to my mind. I vividly remember the Intel 8087, a math co-processor to the Intel 8086 that came out in 1980-1981. All the floating point arithmetic was offloaded to it. It ended up disappearing as a separate chip with the Intel 80486 in the late eighties. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_8087 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_8087