Why Modern OS are interrupt driven?Give an example

Answer Posted / banavathvishnu

There are 3 types of OS
1. Interrupt driven
2. Polling
3. Event driven

In Interrupt driven OS CPU clock is handed over to
Interrupt only when the interrupt is occured.

In Polling, CPU clock should wait until an event is occured
is very expencise wrt to CPU clock.

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