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SubjectRe: 2.1 (i386): wording
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Followup to:  <D6361E61668@rkdvmks1.ngate.uni-regensburg.de>
By author: "Ulrich Windl" <ulrich.windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Browsing kernel patches I swa the diffs about the naming of the
> numeric processor in i386. The candidates were "math error" (for
> exceptions), "npu", "fpu". As Intel calls the thing "NPX" (Numeric
> Processor Extension, IMHO), why not use that?
>

Because everyone else calls it an FPU. Intel tends to change what
they call things from year to year anyway.

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