> I remember when some of the old Slot-1 P3 cpus had off-die, but on-board cache I remember when you had to buy an extra processor to get floating point. * ht

> I remember when some of the old Slot-1 P3 cpus had off-die, but on-board cache I remember when you had to buy an extra processor to get floating point. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X87 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X87 At one point there were video game(s) with 'extra' functionality that was only available with this hardware 'upgrade': * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_3.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_3.0 (Get off my lawn.)