When floating point operations were introduced in the Intel processor line,

When floating point operations were introduced in the Intel processor line,



A. The instruction length was increased to 32-bits.
B. Integer processing slowed down as a result
C. IBM's chips were no longer needed.
D. They were not performed in the CPU itself.
E. They were performed in a separate off-chip processor.
F. They did not affect the instruction set.


Answer:

G. The new instructions were microcoded and executed on the original 8086 chip.
D. They were not performed in the CPU itself.
E. They were performed in a separate off-chip processor.


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