Talk:X87

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I'd argue that this isn't technical enough, perhaps that it is even still a stub.
This article could use more information, like how the SSE articles list common instructions in the instruction set. Also it would be helpful to know things like instruction precision when running various instructions, things such as FMUL is 80 bit and it operates on registers ... --216.37.197.174 16:57, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] merge

These math coprocessor chips are so very closely related that I think it is best to cover them all in one article: Intel 8087, Intel 80287, Intel 80387, Intel 80487.

I suggest merging all these articles into the x87 article for now. Later, if the article WP:SIZE grows too great, I think I would prefer one article on the physical coprocessor chips (that doesn't even mention SSE), and another article on the instruction set and programming model used by those chips and also by later CPUs with integrated coprocessors (and also mentions SSE). --68.0.124.33 (talk) 15:06, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Probably prefer not to merge Intel 8087

The 8087 was historic in a number of ways (the first IEEE 754 standard quasi-implementation, arguably the first "serious" numerics widely-available in hardware form for microcomputer users, etc.), and is worthy of detailed specific discussion in ways that the other three probably aren't. Why not first merge the three short articles in (287, 387, 487), and then decide whether it makes real sense for the 8087 article to also be merged? AnonMoos (talk) 06:07, 18 March 2008 (UTC)