On 19/11/17 10:40, Jonathan Engwall wrote:

> I had no idea x86 began its life as a co-processor chip, now it is not
> even a product at all.

Ah no, this was when floating point was done via a co-processor for the
Intel x86..

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 Christopher Samuel        Senior Systems Administrator
 Melbourne Bioinformatics - The University of Melbourne
 Email: sam...@unimelb.edu.au Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545

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