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What was the last CPU that did not have the x87 floating-point unit built in? The 2019 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results Are InWere there 8086 coprocessors other than the 8087?What was the first CPU with exposed pipeline?What's the relationship between early 90s Pentium microprocessor and today's Intel designs?Is there any reason to chose ES, FS, or GS over the others in real mode?How do you put a 286 in Protected Mode?Why not use fractions instead of floating point?Which pre-IEEE computers had a single precision FPU and implemented double precision floats in software?How did the 8086 interface with the 8087 FPU coprocessor?How did people program for Consoles with multiple CPUs?What can an 8086 CPU do if an x87 floating-point coprocessor is attached to it?

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