Labels:clock | fence | hakham | monitor | rock | sky | stairs | web site OCR: PC ebopaedia IX Plik Edycja Zaktadka Opcje Pomoo Wstecz Search New Terms Web Search interrupt See Also (n) A signal informing program that an event has occurred When program receives an int errupt signal, it takes specified action (which can be 0 ignore the signal) Interrupt signals can cause program to suspend itself emporarily service the interrupt Interrupt signals can come from variety of sources FOr example every keystroke generates an interrupt signal. Interrupts can also be generated by other devices such as printer, to indicate that some event has occurred These are called hardware Interrupt signals initiated by programs are called software interrupts software interrupt also called trap nr exception PCs support 256 types software interrupts and 15 hardware interrupts Each type of s ...
