[WalterBright]

> I question whether this was a monopoly move on Intel's part

Well, I was happy about that because I no longer had to deal with switches to generated x87 code or emulate it.

[bonzini]

Only to later add switches that chose between x87 and SSE? :)

[WalterBright]

Sadly, yes. Too bad that 80 bit floating point is essentially dead.