intensive processors have been designed by Intel. In spite of all this, arithmetic process-
ing or complex floating point operations are still considered a specialized job. Just as
8087 was made to be directly compatible with 8086, the higher processors of Intel have
compatible arithmetic coprocessors as shown in Table 13.2. However, the current trend
is to have the coprocessor inbuilt in the general-purpose processor chip.
13.3| The 8086 and 8089 in a Tightly Coupled
Configuration
The 8086 directly supports multiprocessing also with processors called ‘independent
processors’. One such processor is the 8089 I/O processor ...
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