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NMI
Author: Gabriel Torres
Last Updated: December 21, 2005
Category: CPU
Non-Maskable Interruption
Kind of hardware interrupt that cannot be disabled. While IRQ interruptions can be programmed to be ignored, NMI interruption is never ignored. It is usually used to indicate a severe system error, like hardware malfunction (for example, a memory parity error generates this kind of interruption).
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