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A group called the Opcode Collective is reverse-engineering the microcode of Intel's 1980 8087 floating-point coprocessor. Their analysis of the FSCALE instruction reveals it uses over 140 micro-instructions and three subroutine levels to handle special cases, far more complex than initially assumed. The work involves microscopic imaging of the chip's die to map its microcode ROM and datapath circuitry.
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