Book Review
The subtitle is 'A programmer's Reference to BIOS, DOS, and Third-
party Calls'. It is exactly that, 36 chapters of solid information. At a
recent local meeting someone wanted to know how to reset the real time clock
from the CMOS clock. It was a matter of a couple of minutes to find the
relevant calls and a better solution to his problem. All he needed to do
was to read the CMOS clock from his program.
If you do much PC clone programming using interrupts, system level
resources, which must work with other packages and so on this book is a
valuable reference.
As the page numbering is restarted for each of the 36 chapters getting an
exact page count is tedious. It is somewhere in the region of 1000 pages,
covering everything the authors have managed to find out. If you are familiar
with the MS-DOS Interrupt list maintained by Ralf Brown and available on many
BBs much of the contents of this book will already be available to you.
However the book has nearly 50 pages of index as well as a degree of
internal organisation. The book corresponds to release 26 (June
1991).
Other
Authors with the same surname
Brown
Advanced COBOL (3rd ed) by Gary DeWard Brown [Recommended] (Reviewed Sep 2000)
Anti-Patterns & Patterns in Software Configuration Management by William J Brown [Recommended] (Reviewed May 2000)
AntiPatterns in Project Management by William J Brown [Recommended] (Reviewed Sep 2000)
AntiPatterns by William Brown [Recommended] (Reviewed Jul 1998)
C++: The Core Language by Brown & Satir [Not Recommended] (Reviewed Jan 1997)
Embedded Systems Programming in C and Assembly by John Forest Brown [Not Recommended] (Reviewed Jul 1994)
Embedded Systems Programming in C and Assembly by John Forest Brown [Recommended] (Reviewed Jul 1995)
Lex & yacc (2nd edition) by Brown & Mason [Recommended] (Reviewed Jan 1993)
Lex & yacc by Brown & Mason [Recommended] (Reviewed May 1992)
PC Interrupts (Second Edition) by Ralf Brown & Jim Kyle (Reviewed May 1994)
Software Developer's Internet Directory by Ralf Brown & Jim Kyle (Reviewed May 1997)
Uninterrupted Interrupts by Ralf Brown & Jim Kyle (Reviewed Jul 1996)
Web Site Construction Kit for Windows NT by Brown & Zimmerman (Reviewed Jan 1997)
Windows 95 Bug Collection by Bruce Brown [Recommended] (Reviewed Jul 1996)
Kyle
PC Interrupts (Second Edition) by Ralf Brown & Jim Kyle (Reviewed May 1994)
Software Developer's Internet Directory by Ralf Brown & Jim Kyle (Reviewed May 1997)
Uninterrupted Interrupts by Ralf Brown & Jim Kyle (Reviewed Jul 1996)
Last Update - 13 May 2001.
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