Weekly Classic Computer Trivia Question (20150112)

Doug Ingraham dpi at dustyoldcomputers.com
Mon Jan 12 17:57:41 CST 2015


On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at update.uu.se> wrote:

> What do you mean by interrupt latency here?
> The latency before an interrupt is actually propagated to the CPU? The
> latency before the interrupt is reacted upon by the CPU (assuming interrupt
> are ON I hope...). The latency internal to a controller before it even
> might raise the interrupt request?


By latency I mean the time between when the interrupt source signals the
presence of an interrupt and when the JMS Z 0 to field 0 takes place.

Doug


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