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Well...I can. The 8087 was basically obsoleted by register-based SSE2 and SSE3, and as I understand on x86_64 the vestigial 8087 op codes are decoded microinst
by kjs3 7y ago
Well...I can.
The 8087 was basically obsoleted by register-based SSE2 and SSE3, and as I understand on x86_64 the vestigial 8087 op codes are decoded microinstructions executed by the SSEx unit. And the descendant of the B5000 (now called Unisys ClearPath) is a VM running on Xeons; they stopped making stack-based MCP processors in 2015 or so.
So I think the original point still stands.