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Got a hold of a NS32081 and put in on protoboard in my turbo 8088 PC, interfacing via the 8-bit I/O bus (late 1980's.) Wrote a simple Turbo-C interface to read/
by relwin 3y ago
Got a hold of a NS32081 and put in on protoboard in my turbo 8088 PC, interfacing via the 8-bit I/O bus (late 1980's.) Wrote a simple Turbo-C interface to read/write FPU instructions and data. Operations with 32-bit floats were about 4x faster than Turbo-C's floating point emulation. Was straightforward to program as I recall. But I can't recall where that protoboard went...