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		qingcharles 30 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The stack circuitry of the Intel 8087 floating poi... I had to look up which PC games had an option to use the x87: - Vette! - Falcon 3.0 - Quake And some others: https://www.mobygames.com/attributes/attribute/115/ Apparently the 87/287/387 weren't that good as a gaming co-pro as the marshaling of the data to/fro from the CPU was too slow. It was a lot better on the 486DX onwards, I guess.

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