Re: Interrupt question

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From: Risto Lankinen
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 1990 10:21

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jim@cdp.UUCP writes:
>Does anyone have any information on exactly (in excruciating detail)
>what happens after the CPU receives a hardware interrupt and before the time
>the interrupt handler is entered.  In what order do context saves,
>etc. happen?  In what order to registers get put on the stack?  What ...

>Jim Wampler

There was a very good article, called "How the 8259A PIC Manages External
I/O Devices" in the Microsoft Systems Journal, May'89 (Vol 4 #3) on this
subject.

terveisin: Risto Lankinen

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