interrupts locked out

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:interrupts locked out: /adj./ When someone is ignoring you. In a restaurant, after several fruitless attempts to get the waitresss attention, a hacker might well observe "She must have interrupts locked out". The synonym interrupts disabled is also common. Variations abound; "to have ones interrupt mask bit set" and "interrupts masked out" are also heard. See also spl.
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