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Design Issues for Interrupt

Two design issues arise in implementing interrupt I/O.

    • There will almost invariably be multiple I/O modules, how does the processor determine which device issued the interrupt?
                      
    • If multiple interrupts have occurred how the processor does decide which one to process?
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