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Which of his books would you recommend if you were interested in detailed information on programming old IBM PC hardware?
by u14408885 11y ago
Which of his books would you recommend if you were interested in detailed information on programming old IBM PC hardware?
- ghaff 11y agoProbably Peter Norton's Assembly Language Book for the IBMPC. Ray Duncan's Advanced MSDOS was another essential. If you want a bit more esoteric, The Undocumented PC by Frank Van Gilluwe. I could name a few more but I probably shouldn't be admitting that I'm pulling these off my shelves :-)
- u14408885 11y agoAh thank you! I currently have the MS-DOS Encyclopedia (not the first first edition https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/larryosterman/2004/06/14/does-anyone-remember-the-original-ms-dos-encyclopedia/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/larryosterman/2004/06/14/do... which was apparently a little _too_ detailed) which is pretty informative. I'll track down your recommendations though.
- ghaff 11y agoOh. Another one is Norton's Programmer's Guide to the IBMPC. Finally, one other book is Brown & Kyle's PC Interrupts. I sold a shareware DOS file management program written in assembler (the file was about 30kb) for a number of years which is why I have all this obscure stuff :-)