This document discusses interrupts in the 8086 microprocessor. It begins by defining an interrupt as an event that temporarily halts normal program execution to divert control to an interrupt service routine. The document then discusses the different types of interrupts in 8086, including hardware interrupts from devices, software interrupts from the INT instruction, maskable interrupts, and non-maskable interrupts. It provides details on how the 8086 handles different interrupt types, such as pushing register values to the stack and jumping to specific memory locations defined in the interrupt vector table.