What is interrupt?

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What is interrupt?..

Answer / soumyajeet

A Interrupt is a condition that causes the microprocessor
to work on a different task and then later on return to its
previous task. It is of two types
1.Internal or software Interrupt
2.External or hardware Interrupt

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What is interrupt?..

Answer / rahnaash

interrupt is an asynchronous signal indicating need of
attention or need of change in execution

it is coming from outside the processor

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What is interrupt?..

Answer / deeptirekha biswal

to break the sequence of operation. while the cpu is
executing a program, an 'interrupt' breaks the normal
sequence of execution of instructions & diverts into some
other program called Interrupt Service Routine(ISR).After
executing ISR the control is transfered back again to the
main program which was being executed at the time of
interruption.

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What is interrupt?..

Answer / muzz

interrupt is an situation where there arises the need for the master to look in an attention seeking event.

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What is interrupt?..

Answer / madhu.k

when an higher priority task is in queue,the process of low priority task will be interrupted by enabling the IF flag to 1 and high priority task is executed first this is done with the help of interrupt flag

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What is interrupt?..

Answer / faizan

interrupt is a device which is used for.............
((think about it)) hahahaha

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What is interrupt?..

Answer / ghilli

interrupt is....excuse me!!..am i interrupting??...:-P

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