Assertion: hardware interrupt | /r/HasProperty | signal
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text: The difference is that a hardware interrupt is a signal relayed to a system's CPU directly because of some piece of hardware, such as a keyboard or mouse.
text: Therefore, hardware interrupt is the signal received by the processor from another device in the computer, and software interrupt is the execution process of a BIOS or DOS routine (subroutine) that is automatically called for processing the received interrupt signal or is called upon to execute the corresponding instructions.