Inside the Intel 8087 chip: floating-point addition and subtraction In 1980, Intel introduced the 8087, a chip that made floating-point operations much faster in the IBM PC and other systems. Although the 8087 supports advanced operations such as tangents, square roots, and logarithms, this article focuses on basic arithmetic operations: addition and subtraction. The 8087 https://www.osnews.com/story/146189/inside-the-intel-8087-chip-floating-point-addition-and-subtraction/ #Intel