Interrupt driven programming
- 1 June 1971
- journal article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in Communications of the ACM
- Vol. 14 (6) , 417-418
- https://doi.org/10.1145/362604.362618
Abstract
This note is an extension of the ideas expressed by Morgan [1]. He suggests a new form of interrupt which he proposes to use to control the execution of a program, in his case a file management system called DPL [2]. Simply stated, he has attached to every subroutine a Boolean expression which, if true, would cause that subroutine to be executed. Since his implementation is via software, a relatively time-consuming check must be made whenever some condition in the program changes (e.g. some variable has a value changed). A rather simple hardware addition to existing machines can easily implement this interrupt. The following is such a proposal.Keywords
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