> a lot of industry-specific applications demand the (emulated) physical presence of an FPU
Can you name some? I cant come up with any real world uses of FPU implemented PC for industrial use. Even MISTER is pushing it considering availability of emulation.
What I've personally seen that needed an FPU: a water analysis package for a "field laboratory" (its centerpiece being a luggable PC), several in-house applications of an insurance company (which my mentor, a mathematician, coded), as well as a bespoke, modular sasec (safety and security) suite for facility management. I'm slowly building a reference list of DOS- and UNIX-based industry software, as I have an interest in that stuff. Can't help with any names. Yet.
So much for needed. Packages that run without, but are only fully useful with an FPU, were relatively common.
More likely scenario is zero consequences like after numerous Baltic fiber cable "accidents". russians mastered the art of mudded attribution. 2014 Little green men in Crimea, 2018 Petrov & Boshirov gay vacation unrelated to Skripal poisoning, 2023 Kakhovka Dam destruction, or just last ween UN convoy being droned. Everyone knows its them but is too scared to say it out loud and impose consequences.
To this day the only sanctions that really hurt russia have been enacted by Ukraine, the kinetic kind reaching their ships and refineries.
>2018 Petrov & Boshirov... too scared to say it out loud
There was a lot of saying out loud on that one and it's hard to figure cause and effect on consequences but the UK has sent a lot of missiles and drones to Ukraine.
"Almost 200 so-called Russian "shadow fleet" vessels have entered UK waters since the prime minister threatened to intercept them nearly seven weeks ago, BBC Verify analysis suggests." https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn8pvgw802no
Strong signal would be Alexander Mishkin, Anatoliy Chepiga and their superior fatally slipping on Ice in downtown Moscow, not putting them on sanctions list.
>In what then Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson called an "extraordinary international response" on the part of the UK's allies, on 26 and 27 March 2018 there followed a concerted action by the U.S., most EU member states, Albania, Australia, Canada, Macedonia, Moldova, and Norway, and other NATO states to expel a total of over 140 Russian accredited diplomats (including those expelled by the UK)
which I guess is not wacking Mishin and Chepiga but it's not nothing either.
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