[cfp-interest 3666] Rafi Nave: oral history of the Intel 8087 Math Coprocessor

[Jerome Coonen]

Greetings, as the current IEEE committee prepares to recognize the 40th
anniversary of IEEE approval of Standard 754, you might like this new oral
history sponsored by the Computer History Museum.

The 8087 inspired much of what 754 is today. When it appeared in 1980, it
effectively established the converging drafts of the committee as the de
facto standard.

Here is a link to that video on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRSUmuWiTOs&list=PLQsxaNhYv8daKdGi7s85ubzbWdTB36-_q&index=1&t=4s
This is more than the tale of fitting the emerging standard plus kernel
elementary functions onto a chip with under 64,000 transistors. Rafi opens
with the story of the birth of Israel in 1948, his birth in 1949, and the
rise of semiconductor expertise in the country.

Here is the edited transcription.
https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/300000148/search/keyword:rafi%20nave--collection:archive-collections/

Cheers.

-Jerome Coonen
 650.996.4738
 jcoonen at gmail.com
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