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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>priority interrupt</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../P.html" title="P"/><link rel="previous" href="printing-discussion.html" title="printing discussion"/><link rel="next" href="profile.html" title="profile"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">priority interrupt</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="printing-discussion.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">P</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="profile.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="priority-interrupt"/><dt xmlns="" id="priority-interrupt"><b>priority interrupt</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from the hardware term] Describes any stimulus compelling enough to
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yank one right out of <a href="../H/hack-mode.html"><i class="glossterm">hack mode</i></a>. Classically used
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to describe being dragged away by an <a href="../S/SO.html"><i class="glossterm">SO</i></a> for
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immediate sex, but may also refer to more mundane interruptions such as a
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fire alarm going off in the near vicinity. Also called an
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<a href="../N/NMI.html"><i class="glossterm">NMI</i></a> (non-maskable interrupt), especially in
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