What is interrupt acknowledge?
Interrupt acknowledge is the process of acknowledging a hardware
interrupt, obtaining an interrupt vector address, and initiating
the interrupt service routine in software. The INTA- (Interrupt
Acknowledge) pin has the same timing as RD-, and external hardware
is expected to provide an opcode in response to it. In the case of
TRAP, RST7.5, RST6.5, and RST5.5, there is no specific interrupt
acknowledge cycle like there is for INTR, but everything else is
the same.