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Interrupts

Also known as a trap, an interrupt is sometimes abbreviated as INTR and is a command or request that tells the processor to stop what it's doing and wait for further instructions.

Also see: APIC, INTA, Internal interrupt, Interrupt handler, IRQ, NMI, SMI

 

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