Re: Fixed point Vs Floating point

On Jun 17, 11:42 pm, JosephKK <quiettechb...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
For the x86 series the FPU was brought onboard with the 486, and with
the 68020 in that series.

Alas, not the 68020, nor the 68030; it was the MC68040
that sported onboard floating point (the hardware support
for floating point on the '020 and '030 was in the form of
coprocessor compatibility).

The floating point unit was omitted on the MC68LC040,
so there were Macintoshes where a 'floating point unit'
upgrade consisted of replacing one '040 CPU with
another, more expensive one.
.

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