Re: Origins Of Interrupts

According to Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo@nz.invalid>:

There is an Asianometry video which says that the first computer to have
interrupts was the Univac 1103.
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Does this sound right? What’s the earliest architecture anybody knows of
that had support for interrupts?

This informative web page repeats that claim but then says he
thinks the Univac I had an overflow trap several years earlier:

https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/interrupts.html

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