IEEE machine

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An IEEE machine is a computer implementing the IEEE 754 floating point standard for calculations involving numbers that are not integers. This includes almost all modern computers. The Intel 8087 processor, introduced in 1980, used the IEEE standard, and all subsequent IBM PC models with floating point capabilities (including the Pentium) are therefore IEEE machines (with the exception of course of those Pentiums produced in 1993 and 1994 suffering from the Pentium FDIV bug!).


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