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What are the differences between the hardware interrupts and software interrupts?

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I'm not too sure what exactly you are referring to.

But a hardware interrupt is probably an error with something physical for example, a broken harddrive or faulty motherboard.

and a software interrupt would be a problem with a program or game on a computer.

hope this answered your questions :)

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