Penguin
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A section of code run whenever an Interupt? occurs. These may be at the application level of at the OperatingSystems level. They are notorious hard to write because they occur asynchronously with the rest of the application or OperatingSystem. They can also happen very frequenctly, so are common writen in AssemblyLanguage.