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Interrupts A Level Computer Science
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- 1What is an interrupt?The computers way of diverting away from the sequential nature of completing instructions.
- 2What would happen without interrupts?Without interrupts the computer would continue to finish all the instructions for a given program and then check if there are any interrupts.
- 3How do interrupts work?This is how they work.
- 4What are the types of interrupts?I/O interrupts
Timer interrupts
Hardware interrupts
Program interrupts - 5When do I/O interrupts occur?They occur when the computer is performing a data transfer operation. For example, if you started a transfer of a file from main memory to a USB and you removed the USB during the transfer the computer generates an interrupt preventing further transmission of data as address is no longer reachable
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