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A comment on Floating Point Visually Explained (2017).

Re:Floating Point Visually Explained (2017) by mark-r on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @12:54PM (#19087654)
Intel's floating point coprocessor may have been out of reach for most people in the early 90's, but there were clones available. My 386 had a Cyrix I believe.
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Re:Floating Point Visually Explained (2017) by canada_dry on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @04:42PM (#19090139)
> My 386 had a Cyrix I believe.

Yup... and as I recall, it was a must have for MS flight sim and Falcon 3!

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Re:Floating Point Visually Explained (2017) by rasz on Thursday February 07, 2019 @05:45AM (#19104324)
nope, ms sim didnt use fpu, falcon 3 had a separate, optional "realistic" hi-fidelity flight model that used fpu, but it was pretty broken http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/3803136/re-falc...
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