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- From: amn@unix.brighton.ac.uk (Anthony Naggs)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Book on low level pc hardware
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.023310.25231@unix.brighton.ac.uk>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 02:33:10 GMT
- References: <1993Jan1.172858.24858@comp.lancs.ac.uk>
- Organization: University of Brighton, UK
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- In article <1993Jan1.172858.24858@comp.lancs.ac.uk> daves@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Dave Stow) writes:
- > ... - I am after something that will
- >give me information on programming the *86 chips - particularly memory
- >management stuff, I/O hardware, and the various protection modes.
-
- Try the Intel "i386 Microprocessor Programmer's Reference Manual", or the
- "i486 ...", "i486SX ...". These should be available from major book stores,
- they are published jointly by Intel & Osborne McGraw-Hill.
-
- They give quite a lot of details about the instruction set and use of
- registers for memory management (protected & virtual modes). I haven't
- had occassion to really use the book for the areas you mention, it looks
- like a useful -reference- but doesn't give much guidance on actually
- using the information. Room for another book on the subject, anybody got
- a better suggestion?
-
- (Oh yes, I have the "i486 .." version #22.95 in 1990. If you don't mind
- buying without looking at it first you can probably find them in the RS and
- Farnell catalogues - I don't have them at hand to check).
-
- Hope this helps,
- Anthony Naggs
- Software/Electronics Engineer P O Box 1080, Peacehaven
- East Sussex BN10 8PZ
- Phone: +44 273 589701 Great Britain
- Email: (c/o Univ of Brighton) amn@vms.brighton.ac.uk or xa329@city.ac.uk
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