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===="Interrupt acknowledge"====
 
TheFor the "interrupt acknowledge" method, the external device gives the CPU an interrupt handler number. The interrupt acknowledge method is used by the Intel Pentium and many older microprocessors.<ref name="huang" />
 
When the CPU is affected by an [[interrupt]], it looks up the [[interrupt handler]] in the interrupt vector table, and transfers control to it.