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Instruction decoding in the Intel 8087 floating-point chip

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globaltech2/14/2026

TL;DR

According to righto.com, but how does a PC decide if an instruction was a floating-point instruction for the 8087 or a regular instruction for the 8086 or 8088 CPU.

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Hacker News

https://www.righto.com/2026/02/8087-instruction-decoding.html

2/14/2026
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