Friday, 22 May, 2026

The evolution of CPU

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The fundament of modern processor architecture 8086

 

Intel_8086_Family_Users_Manual

 

8087 – another invention – floating point numbers (sigh|exponent|mantissa), the existence of math coprocessor)

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Motorola 68K processor

80286 ’83

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