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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
> >
> > My memory may be failing me here, but I do seem to recall exactly
> > that having been the case, at least once in the past.  Windows 9x
> > seemed to re-set the FPU control word of a running DJGPP program
> > in mid-stream, or at least allow that to happen, if some other
> > process tramps over it.  I.e. it fails to guarantee keeping an
> > FPU control word change alive over the duration of a DOS process.
> 
> I thought about something like that, but this could only have
> effect on programs that trigger exceptions, no?

Such as events triggered by the timers, giving time slices to
other processes, etc.

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