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After a substatial hardware upgrade though - those of us who are old enough remember when IBM PC's came with a empty chip socket for the Intel 8087
by walshemj 6y ago
After a substatial hardware upgrade though - those of us who are old enough remember when IBM PC's came with a empty chip socket for the Intel 8087
- sliken 6y agoHeh, as a poor student I scrounged enough for a 386sx, then later bought a non-Intel coprocessor, cyrix I think. It had 90 bits of intermediate precision (instead of Intel's 80) if you kept values on the stack. I think I managed to keep almost the entire mandelbrot calc on the stack.
- h2odragon 6y agoi rocked a 286 with the Weitek? was it? FPU that was almost but not quite an 80287 and yet did some cool stuff nothing else did. That counted as worth it then, too. In the OP situation, all the more so.