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		mark-r on Feb 5, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Floating Point Visually Explained (2017) Intel's floating point coprocessor may have been out of reach for most people in the early 90's, but there were clones available. My 386 had a Cyrix I believe.

canada_dry on Feb 5, 2019 [–]

> My 386 had a Cyrix I believe.

Yup... and as I recall, it was a must have for MS flight sim and Falcon 3!

rasz on Feb 7, 2019 | [–]

nope, ms sim didnt use fpu, falcon 3 had a separate, optional "realistic" hi-fidelity flight model that used fpu, but it was pretty broken http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/3803136/re-falc...

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