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On a random, but interesting note though, manuals from some of the early IBM PC's have the BIOs source listing in them
by non-entity 7y ago
On a random, but interesting note though, manuals from some of the early IBM PC's have the BIOs source listing in them
- homarp 7y agoe.g. https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_ibmpcpc602renceAug81_17295874/page/n189/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_ibmpcpc602renceAug81_1... https://sites.google.com/site/pcdosretro/ibmpcbios https://sites.google.com/site/pcdosretro/ibmpcbios has the source code for various models typed.
- 0xff00ffee 7y agoI had a giant pink book of PC BIOS that was my bible from 1988 to 1994 before the internet took off. I can't for the life of me remember who published it, but it had everything you needed to know about PC BIOS and an old IBM bios source listing. It was over 600 pages. It look liked this 1200 page book, but this isn't it (also a book I used): https://www.amazon.com/PC-Interrupts-Programmers-Reference-Third-Party/dp/0201624850 https://www.amazon.com/PC-Interrupts-Programmers-Reference-T... I also had the Apple ][+ ROM listing in one of those spiral-bound books from apple circa 1980 but that too has been lost, sadly.
- spc476 7y agoSounds like the The Programmer's PC Sourcebook (which is on my shelf, and yes, one could say it has a pink cover).
- 0xff00ffee 7y agoYES! That is exactly it. I wish I saved mine for nostalgia.
- therealcamino 7y agoWe had something like this but it was a four-inch thick printout on green-bar paper and nobody knew where it came from.