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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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