(thing) by Amoeba Protozoa Tue Jan 16 2001 at 3:21:16

Input/Output Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller

An external peripheral integrated circut that is used to route interrupt signals from peripheral devices onto the APIC bus for delivery to CPU local APICs. There must be at least one I/O APIC in an SMP system.

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