What happens during Alt-tab?

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Does the program still get input and go about its way, but just not draw anything to the screen? Does it stop in one posistion and wait their until it regains focus? If its waiting.. is it in a do nothing loop, or is it actually getting 0 cpu time, and truly stalled in one place?