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interrupt

An asynchronous event that suspends normal processing and temporarily diverts the flow of control through an “interrupt handler” routine. Interrupts may be caused by both hardware (I/O, timer, machine check) and software (supervisor, system call or trap instruction). In general the computer responds to an interrupt by storing the information about the current state of the running program; storing information to identify the source of the interrupt; and invoking a first-level interrupt handler.

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