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What is an Interrupt, what are their types and usage?

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What is an Interrupt, what are their types and usage?
posted Aug 1, 2015 by anonymous

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An interrupt is an signal to the processor to suspend the current executing process and run the specified process and after execution of specified process then it again execute the previous process
Types of interrupts are:
program interrupt
timer interrupt
I/o interrupt
hardware interrupt

answer Aug 2, 2015 by Kajana.supriya
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