One of the interesting things about the 80-bit format was that allowed the use of 64-bit integers on a 16 or 32-bit machine. This was what Thomas Nicely was usi

One of the interesting things about the 80-bit format was that allowed the use of 64-bit integers on a 16 or 32-bit machine. This was what Thomas Nicely was using them for when he found the Pentium FDIV bug: https://faculty.lynchburg.edu/~nicely/pentbug/pentbug.html https://faculty.lynchburg.edu/~nicely/pentbug/pentbug.html