Nmi

3 definitions found

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  NMI
       Non-Maskable Interrupt
       
       

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:



  NMI /N-M-I/ n. Non-Maskable Interrupt. An IRQ 7 on the PDP-11 or
     680[01234]0; the NMI line on an 80[1234]86. In contrast with a {priority
     interrupt} (which might be ignored, although that is unlikely), an NMI
     is _never_ ignored. Except, that is, on {clone} boxes, where NMI is
     often ignored on the motherboard because flaky hardware can generate
     many spurious ones.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  NMI
       
          {Non-Maskable Interrupt}