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		userbinator 17 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The stack circuitry of the Intel 8087 floating poi... I don't know what the GRX field is. The field of the instruction that selects the stack offset.

kens 16 days ago [–]

Yes, but what is "GRX"? It must be an abbreviation for something, but I can't figure it out. And the patent never mentions it.

userbinator 16 days ago | [–]

Probably something like Group/Register/eXtension, similar to the Reg field of the ModRM.

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