laurent.artaud[AT]free.fr <"laurent.artaud[AT]free.fr"> wrote:
> >   This is true for the *CPU*. However, it's not the CPU which handles
> > the floating point code, but the FPU.
> >   The FPU is completely separate from the CPU. The FPU has eight 80-bit

> Well, you seems to mix CPU and ALU:

  No, I'm not. We were discussing whether the FPU can handle chunks of
data larger than 32 bits. You claimed that the *FPU* of Athlon XP can't
because it's internally 32-bit. I casted doubt about this. As an argument
you said that the CPU and the ALU of Athlon XP is 32 bits architecture.
I commented that the FPU has nothing to do with those.

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