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I remember the day I got my AMD 287 co-processor for my old Samsung 286. IIRC I ordered it from an ad I saw in Compute! magazine. At the time I had this book about writing fractals in C and I went back and recompiled all my code to use the co-processor instead of the emulation library that came with Turbo C, what a revelation. These days I only buy CPU's with math coprocessors.

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> These days I only buy CPU's with math coprocessors.

...is there any other kind anymore? Unless you work with microcontrollers, at least.

That's a bit of a joke. It's like saying, "I only buy cars with an electric starter now!"

Okay, thanks, I wondered if that was the case but I wasn't sure I was reading it right

Huh, this reminds me my raspberry pi pico has no fpu, being a pair of cortex M0s. Maybe I should buy a recent teensy, which has the cortex M7 with an FPU.

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