Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
> For two decades now the CPU and FPU have been the same thing on x86. It is
> not like they are two different processors. They are *one* processor. The
> terminology is just a leftover from times when the logic we nowadays call
> FPU did not fit on the same die as the integer unit called CPU back then.

.... and yet, all these times, the FPU has been doing its business in parallel to
the CPU, like in the very first days.

On the other hand, given how much stuff is happening in parallel in a CPU
nowadays, this special status may not be really special anymore.

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