Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: 2.1 (i386): wording | Date | 16 Nov 1997 02:33:00 GMT |
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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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