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> From: CBFalconer <cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 02:00:44 GMT
> 
> > A multitasking, multiprocessing OS should save and restore the state
> > of the FPU between context switches.  IIRC, Windows indeed does that,
> 
> Glad to hear it, but I greatly mistrust MS.

A good practice, I must say ;-)

What I wrote comes from testing, not from trust of MS code.  Of
course, that testing was quite some time ago, and I might have
forgotten some crucial details.