Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
If I remember the acronym correctly. It is a gadget that gives the
O/S a tremendous amount of control over how interrupts are delivered
to a cpu, particularly in a multiple-CPU architecture...
Robert Hyatt Computer and Information Sciences
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On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, Kosh wrote:
> You'll have to excuse my ignorance, but what exactly is an APIC chip and
> what does it do? The only time I've ever seen the term is in conjunction
> with SMP, but I don't know how it relates.
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