NASM 2.05 based x86 Instruction Reference[ch125]
A.5.105 FSTSW: Store Floating-Point Status Word FSTSW mem16 ; 9B DD /7 [8086,FPU] FSTSW AX ; 9B DF E0 [286,FPU] FNSTSW mem16 ; DD /7 [8086,FPU] FNSTSW AX ; DF E0 [286,FPU] FSTSW stores the FPU status word into AX or into a 2-byte memory area. FNSTSW does the same thing as FSTSW, without first waiting for pending floating-point exceptions to clear.