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Explain the features of co-processor 8087.
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- It is a high performance numeric co-processor.
- It can work on integer, decimal and real type numbers.
- It has an instruction set capable of doing complex arithmetic and trigonometric calculations.
- It follows IEEE floating-point standard.
- 8087 maintains an instruction queue identical to that of the host processor (8086).
- 8087 has eight 80 bit numeric data registers available to the programmer
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