Inside the Intel 8087 chip: floating-point addition and subtraction

This post dives deep into the Intel 8087 chip, explaining how it performs floating-point addition and subtraction through its complex microcode and circuitry. It covers the architecture of the chip, the intricacies of floating-point arithmetic, the importance of special cases (like zero and infinity), and concludes with a look at the evolution of floating-point standards influenced by the 8087.