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- From: adrian@csqx.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk (A Johnstone)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Books on IBMPC hardware internals
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.093523.2245@csqx.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 09:35:23 GMT
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- I'm trying to gather a comprehensive list of books and other material on the PC.
- I DON'T mean those books that tell you what a hard disk is, and how to fit an
- expansion card. I am interested in real circuit and timing information, and
- system software books that cover the details of interrupt and DMA handling. It
- seems to me that there are very few such texts around -- perhaps this is a
- reflection of our new software oriented hobbyist community, i.e. all the hardware
- hackers have sold out ;-)
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- Anyway, I include below my existing small list, and I would be very glad to hear
- about any others out there, as well as magazine articles and on-line network
- documents.
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- "The IBM PC from the inside out" revised edition, Murray Sargent III and Richard
- L. Shoemaker, Addison Wesley, 1986, ISBN 0-201-06918-0
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- Covers assembly language and has some (not much) hardware interfacing information.
- Revised edition includes some info on AT, but, again, not much.
- Not a great book unless you are completely new to the game. Also typeset in
- horrible sans-serif daisywheel (remember them?) typeface.
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- "Handbook of software and hardware interfacing for IBM PCs" Jeffrey P. Royer,
- Prentice Hall, 1987, ISBN 0-13-381849-7
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- Very useful coverage of BIOS, DOS file structures and quite advanced interfacing,
- including DMA, wait state generation and interrupts. XT only (sigh).
- Recommended but a bit out of date.
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- "Interfacing to the IBM personal Computer" second edition, Lewis C Eggebrecht,
- Sams, 1990, ISBN 0-672-22722-3
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- The author was the original PC designer, and no he doesn't explain why PC
- interrupt lines are active high... However this book has the virtue of being
- up to date with good coverage of XT, AT and PS/2 MCA buses. Lots of useful
- hardware info and examples, although he fights shy of giving program listings
- which is a shame. Highly recommended.
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- IBM technical manual for the PC. Has all the schematics and a BIOS listing but
- no advice as to design strategies. I believe there are equivalent volumes for
- the XT and AT, but I don't have them.
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- Adrian
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