PC system programming

✍ Scribed by Tischer, Michael

• Publisher: Abacus
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 939
• Series: Developer’s series.
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Chapter 1 - Introduction
Chapter 2 - The PC's Brain
Chapter 3 - Introduction to Interrupts
Chapter 4 - Using Interrupts from High Level Languages
Chapter 5 - Using Interrupts from Assembly Language
Chapter 6 - The Disk Operating System
Chapter 7 - The BIOS
Chapter 8 - Terminate and Stay Resident Programs
Chapter 9 - Sound on the PC
Chapter 10 - Accessing and Programming the Video Cards
Chapter 11 - Accessing and Programming the AT Realtime Clock
Chapter 12 - Keyboard Programming
Chapter 13 - Expanded Memory Specification
Chapter 14 - Mouse Programmingj
Chapter 15 - Determining ProcessorTypes
Chapter 16 - PC Hardware Interrupts
Chapter 17 - Hard Disk Partitioning
Chapter 18 - The PC Ports
Chapter 19 - Interaction between Keyboard, BIOS and DOS
Appendices
Appendix A - Important Hardware Interrupts
Appendix B - BIOS Interrupts and Functions
Appendix C - DOS Interrupts and Functions
Appendix D - EMM Functions
Appendix E - EGA/VGA BIOS Functions
Appendix F - Mouse Driver Interrupts
Appendix G - Introduction to Number Systems
Appendix H - Glossary of Terms
Appendix I - Scan Codes
Appendix J - ASCII Character Set
Index
Companion Diskette

✦ Subjects

Systems programming (Computer science);Microcomputers -- Programming