The Peter Norton Programmer's Guide to the IBM PC

by Peter Norton and Peter G. Aitken

Book Overview

This updated edition of The Peter Norton Programmer's Guide to the IBM PC & PS/2 covers the fundamental concepts of modern PC hardware, MS-DOS system calls, essential ROM BIOS services and graphical... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0914845462
• ISBN13: 9780914845461
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Microsoft Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 2.03 lbs.

Customer Reviews

How I got started

This is the book that got me started as a programmer on the PC. It has all the references for the DOS interrupts and everything else you needed to do low-level hacking back in the days.

Great reference work to the early PCs

Finally...the ultimate programmer's reference guide for the early family of IBM personal computers: IBM PC · XT · AT · IBM Portable · PCjrIf you're an intermediate or advanced programmer, you know the value of developing programs for one IBM machine that will port to the others, even any future IBM machines. Peter Norton, acknowledged IBM authority and creator of the best-selling Norton Utilities, now gives you the information you need to do just this. In The Peter Norton Programrner's Guide to the IBM PC, you'll find a gold mine of insights, techniques, technical data, and quick reference charts, and you'll take a look at the architectural similarities and differences among IBM's five personal computers. Equipped with this invaluable information, you'll be better able to create simple, clean, and portable professional and business programs.Here's just a sampling of what's covered: Disk Basics · Sound Generation · BIOS Basics ROM-BIOS Video and Diskette Services DOS Interrupts · DOS Functions (including version 3.0) · Linking Programs · Installable Device Drivers · Tips on creating interface routines for use with assembly language, Pascal, BASIC, and C