It's debatable - 'trap' isn't extremely well defined, it depends on the architecture. For x86 you'd really call it an exception rather then trap (Trap is used f

It's debatable - 'trap' isn't extremely well defined, it depends on the architecture. For x86 you'd really call it an exception rather then trap (Trap is used for a bit of a different meaning as far as interrupts go). At the end of the day though, with x86 exceptions/traps/interrupts are all handled like an interrupt (With a few differing details in how they are setup), so saying it's "basically an interrupt" is probably fine, at the very least it's close enough for a high-level explanation.