input/output interrupt
input/output interrupt
[′in‚pu̇t ′au̇t‚pu̇t ′int·ə‚rəpt] (computer science)
A technique by which the central processor needs only initiate an input/output operation and then handle other matters, while other units within the system carry out the rest of the operation.
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