On: The Floppy Disk of Floating Point

[klodolph]

> ...a kind of pauper’s fused multiply-add, some twenty-five years ahead of its time.

Maybe 12 years. The PowerPC had fused multiply-add in 1992. For whatever reason, it didn't really appear in x86 until 2012.

[jacquesm → klodolph]

And many DSPs had it long before then.