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unusual facts about interrupt



Abortive medication

Abortive medication (such as the Triptans) is used to interrupt an attack or episode of severe headache.

Australia You're Standing In It

For a short time Tim and Debbie presented Reel To Real on the ABC, in which the pair presented old B-movies (e.g. The Boy with Green Hair) and proceeded to interrupt, deconstruct, and generally mock them in voice-over as the movie screened.

Battery eliminator

Tripod-mounted cameras in photography studios often use a battery eliminator to avoid having to interrupt lengthy shooting sessions to replace batteries.

Beni River

30 km before joining the Mamoré River at the Bolivia-Brazil border, the rapids of Cachuela Esperanza interrupt the upstream navigability of the river.

Cryoablation

Techniques also exist where incisions are used in the open heart to interrupt abnormal electrical conduction (Maze procedure).

Cyrix coma bug

Alexandr Konosevich, from Omsk, further researched the bug, and coauthored an article with Uwe Post in the German technology magazine, c't, calling it the "hidden CLI bug" (CLI is the instruction which disables interrupts in the x86 architecture).

Emil Rebreanu

He graduated from high school in 1913 and entered the Law faculty of Franz Joseph University in Cluj (Kolozsvár), but was forced to interrupt his studies upon the war's outbreak.

Garki Project

The project concluded that indoor spraying with Propoxur had a very limited impact on malaria and the mass administration of sulfalene-pyrimethamine (in combination with the residual spraying) failed to interrupt the transmission of malaria for any length of time.

Heinrich Zollinger

From 1837-1838 he studied botany at the University of Geneva under Augustin and Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle, but had to interrupt his studies due to financial problems.

Howard Rollins

In 1974, he moved to New York where he went on to appear in the Broadway productions of We Interrupt This Program..., in 1975, The Mighty Gents in 1978, and G. R. Point in 1979.

Inter-processor interrupt

The M65MP option of OS/360 used the Direct Control feature of the S/360 to generate an interrupt on another processor; on S/370 and its successors, including z/Architecture, the SIGNAL PROCESSOR instruction provides a more formalized interface.

Lord Thomas Howard

Both Lord Howard and Lady Margaret were committed to the Tower, and on 18 July 1536 an Act of Attainder accusing Lord Howard of attempting to 'interrupt ympedyte and lett the seid Succession of the Crowne' was passed in both houses of Parliament.

Mass drug administration

In 1984, MDA was added to the distribution of insecticide-impregnated bed nets (ITNs) in Sabah (Malaysia), but this failed to interrupt malaria transmission.

NetWare

Implemented as a shared-nothing cluster, under SFT-III the OS was logically split into an interrupt-driven I/O engine and the event-driven OS core.

Newman and Baddiel in Pieces

Albert was an elderly "character actor" (played by Denys Graham) who would occasionally interrupt either of the performers to ask if he could play a role in the next sketch in order to earn money to pay for a dialysis machine for his daughter Sally, whose picture he would look at from within a locket.

Ovid S. Crohmălniceanu

After graduating from high school in his home town, he began to study, in 1939, at the Politehnica University of Bucharest, but had to interrupt his studies in 1940.

Panchito Alba

The tandem was famous for a comedic duet routine wherein one would interrupt the other to offer a mangled translation of the Tagalog lyric into English or vice-versa.

POWER1

Consequently, subroutine calls and interrupts are dealt with without incurring branch penalties.

Sun dog

A set of powerful parhelia in Rome in the Summer of 1629 caused René Descartes to interrupt his metaphysical studies and led to his work of natural philosophy called "The World".

Unexpected kernel mode trap

0x00000004 means "Overflow", occurring when the processor calls an interrupt handler while the Overflow flag is set.


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