> "However had no luck trying to explain that to a 'pure' programmer." Interrupt requests are easy to explain to even a novice computer user if you frame them

> "However had no luck trying to explain that to a 'pure' programmer." Interrupt requests are easy to explain to even a novice computer user if you frame them in the context of something they're familiar with. For example, when you press a key on your keyboard an interrupt request will be created to make sure the computer knows you've pressed the key. So in simplified terms, you could say when you press the "A" key on your keyboard, there is a part of the computer that says "pause what other things you're doing, respond to the "A" key press, then continue with what you were doing before".