An Introduction to Non-Maskable Interrupts (NMIs)
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What is an Interrupt ?
Modern systems architecture has created tightly coupled connect between system components. Work for system level components (storage, network, display, etc) can be handed off to a component for completion. Rather than wait for the component the main CPU can be tasked to do other pending work.
When the component has completed its work it will raise a sig...
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