minus-squareHakFoo@lemmy.sdf.orgtoLinux@lemmy.world•New Linux Patches Propose Removing Support For Old i486 & Early i586 CPUslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 days agoThen you have the NexGen Nx586, which is arguably 386-like in having no FPU, but ended up being the ancestor of most modern x86 CPUs by decomposing complex operations into RISC-esque micro-ops. linkfedilink
Then you have the NexGen Nx586, which is arguably 386-like in having no FPU, but ended up being the ancestor of most modern x86 CPUs by decomposing complex operations into RISC-esque micro-ops.