SN241: Hardware Interrupts
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In this fourth installment of Steve's "How Computers Work" series, Steve explains the operation of "hardware interrupts" which, by instantly interrupting the normal flow of instructions, allow computers to attend to the needs of the hardware that interacts with the outside world while they are in the middle of doing other things.
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