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Content • A core responsibility of any operating system kernel is managing the hardware connected to the machine—hard drives and Blu-ray discs, keyboards and mice, 3D processors and wireless radios. • How can the processor work with hardware without impacting the machine’s overall performance? • A better solution is to provide a mechanism for the hardware to signal to the kernel when attention is needed. This mechanism is called an interrupt. Outline 1. Interrupts 2. Interru