Reverse engineer digs into Intel 8087 microcode, exposing register mechanics

Reverse engineer digs into Intel 8087 microcode, exposing register mechanics

Hacker News·1w·Ken Shirriff

Ken Shirriff has published a detailed analysis of the Intel 8087 floating-point coprocessor's internal microcode, focusing on how it handles register operations. For makers interested in CPU architecture, retrocomputing, or low-level systems work, this kind of hardware-level documentation is rare and valuable—showing what happens beneath the abstraction layer.

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