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== Interrupts in a nutshell.==
An interrupt is a message from a device, such as the keyboard, to the CPU, telling it to immediately stop whatever it is currently doing and do something else. For example, the keyboard controller sends an interrupt when a key is pressed. To know what to do when a
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