COMP 242 Class Notes

Section 4: Interrupt Processing

• Time Management
  • Preemption Events
  • Wakeup Events
  • Implementation
    • Clock Dispatcher
• Input/Output
  • Hardware Aspects
  • Input/Output Primitives
    • Issues
  • XINU I/O Primitives
  • Implementation
    • Interrupt Processing
• The Terminal Device
  • Hardware
  • The Terminal Driver
    • Upper-Half Tty Input Routines
    • Upper-Half Tty Output Routines
    • Lower-Half Output Routines
    • Lower-Half Input Processing
    • Miscellaneous
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