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C R E D I T S
The information presented here was gathered from megabytes of files
found on BBS systems, conversations on a dozen different BBS systems,
correspondence, and every reference book I could get my hands on. On
occasion, a number of prestigious references didn't agree with each
other. Where this has happened, I have used the latest references.
There is too much information here for me to verify every fact
personally. I have used my own judgement as to the reliability of the
sources.
I've been selling copies of the Reference since October 1987. The
original basis for the Reference came from Peter Norton's
"Programmer's Guide to the IBM PC" and the original Janet Jack
interrupt list circa sometime 1986, as updated by Ross Greenberg, plus
a copy of the IBM DOS 3.1 Technical Reference. It's grown a bit, eh?
Anyway, I've prepared a list of the sources I've used for the
Reference to clear up any curiosity as to where the material came
from.
Tools used in preparing this book:
Microsoft SymDeb, the final gasp of venerable DEBUG.COM and a fine
program.
Microsoft CodeView, huge and awkward though it may be.
V Communications Sourcer, the only effective disassembler I've found.
References used in preparing this book:
An Introduction to the DOS Protected Mode Interface
Software Focus Group
Intel Corp, March 1991 order # 240787-002
AST EEMS Technical Reference Manual v3.2
documents 020022-001B and 000408-001B
provided by AST Corporation, 1987
AT&T 6300 Plus Hardware Reference Manual
p/n 999-300-194IS
from AT&T Corp, 1985 (before the Death Star logo, yet...)
Calculus EZ-FAX Developer's Toolkit
copy 1990, Calculus
Creative Labs Sound Blaster User Reference Manual
copr. 1989
Data General Programmer's Reference for MS-DOS, Rev.3
Data General Corporation (covers through DOS 3.0)
p/n 069-100157 rev 00 May 1986
Digital Research DR-DOS System and Programmer's Guide v3.32
Digital Research Corporation 1988
comment: This manual does not cover the extended disk partition
access, file password protection, or any of the other
goodies provided in DR-DOS. In fact, it not only
doesn't cover the extended features, it doesn't
completely cover DOS calls documented by IBM. It does
have an extensive section on customizing DR-DOS for
use from ROM.
Digital Research DR-DOS User's Guide v3.32
Digital Research Corporation 1988
Digital Research DR-DOS Reference Guide v3.32
Digital Research Corporation 1988
Digital Research DR-DOS Users and Reference Guide v3.40
Digital Research Corporation, January 1989
Digital Research DR Multiuser DOS Users and Reference Guide v5.0
Digital Research Corporation, 1991
Digital Research DR-DOS Users and Reference Guide v5.0
Digital Research Corporation, 1991
DPMI 0.9 Specification
Intel Corp, 1990
DPMI 1.0 Specification
Intel Corp, 1991
G-Host S3 Enhanced Video Graphic Adapter User's Manual
G-Host, 1992
IBM DOS Operations Manual Version 2.00
IBM Corp, 1983
IBM DOS Operations Manual Version 2.10
IBM Corp, 1983
IBM DOS Operations Manual Version 3.1
IBM Corp, November 1984
IBM DOS Operations Manual Version 3.3
IBM Corp, April 1987
IBM DOS Technical Reference, Version 4.0
IBM Corp, 1988
IBM DOS Command Reference, Version 4.0
p/n 6280254
IBM Corp, 1988
IBM PC 3270 Emulation Program Entry Level Version 1.10
User's Guide
pn 84X0280
IBM Corp, 1986
IBM PC 3270 Emulation Program Entry Level Version 1.10
HLLAPI Programmer's Guide
pn 84X0301
IBM Corp, 1986
IBM PC Local Area Network Program Version 1.20
IBM Corp, April 1987
IBM Technical Reference
Options and Adapters - Enhanced Graphics Adapter
p/n 6280131 IBM Publications Aug 1984
IBM Technical Reference
Personal Computer
p/n 6322507 IBM Publications
IBM Technical Reference
Personal Computer - PCjr
p/n 1502293 IBM Publications
LANtastic Programmer's Information Package, 2/21/89
Logitech Mouse Programmer's Toolkit
Logitech Corp. 1986
Lotus-Intel-Microsoft Expanded Memory Specification Version 3.20
part number 300275-003
provided by Intel Corp. September, 1985
Lotus-Intel-Microsoft Expanded Memory Specification 4.0
document 300275-005
provided by Intel Corp. October 1987
Lotus-Intel-Microsoft Expanded Memory Specification 4.0
EMS Toolkit for C Developers
document 302243-001
provided by Intel Corp, February 1990
Microsoft - various documents provided to MS 5.0 beta testers
Microsoft Extended Memory Specification v2.00
provided by Microsoft Corporation, 1988
Microsoft Mouse Technical Reference
Microsoft Press, 1989
Microsoft Virtual DMA Specification 1.0
Microsoft Part # 098-10869 May 1, 1990
Mouse Systems Programmer's Toolkit
p/n 302449-001 Rev A, 1989
p/n 302375-100, 1989
p/n 302446-100, 1989
MS-DOS Programmer's Reference (covers through DOS 2.00)
by Microsoft
p/n 135555-001 Intel Corp. 1984
MS-DOS 5.0 Programmer's Reference (covers DOS 5.0 only)
by Microsoft
Microsoft Press 1991, ISBN 1-55615-329-5
Novell Netware 2.19 SFT/Advanced manual set
by Novell, Incorporated
Novell, 1988
Phar Lap Virtual Control Program Interface (VCPI) Specification v1.0
Phar Lap Software 1989
Phoenix System BIOS for PC/XT/AT and Compatibles
Addison Wesley, 1987
Phoenix System BIOS for PC/XT/AT and Compatibles (Second edition)
Addison Wesley, 1991
Tandy 1000 TX Technical Reference Manual
Tandy Corp.
p/n 25-1514 Tandy Corp 1987
The Software Link
PC-MOS 4.1 Programmer's Reference (1990)
Toshiba 1000 Technical Reference Manual
Toshiba Corp. of America 1987
Tseng Labs EVA Chipset Programming Guide
Tseng Labs, 1986
X3.4-1977: American National Standard Code for Information Interchange
by American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
New York, NY 1977
Weitek ABACUS Software Designer's Guide, Doc 8967
September 1989
Wendin-DOS Programmer's Reference
Wendin, Inc, 1987
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ATI EGA Wonder Operation Manual
ATI Technologies, 1987
Everex EV-650 EGA Reference Guide, Version 1.00
Everex Computer, 1986
FastCard IV User Manual
Peripheral Marketing Inc.
p/n 0527 Jan 1987
Hercules Graphics Card User's Manual
Hercules Computer Technology
1983
Hercules Graphics Card Plus Owner's Manual
Hercules Computer Technology
Model GB112 1987
JDR B-3101 FLoppy Disk Drive Card User's Guide
470.03002 version 1.00 1988
LANtastic 2.46 Installation Guide
Artisoft, 1988
LANtastic 3.01 Installation Guide
Artisoft, 1990
LANtastic 4.0 beta Installation Guide
Artisoft, 1991
LapLink Release 2 User's Manual
Traveling Software, 1987
LapLink Release 3 User's Manual
Traveling Software, 1989
Logitech EGA Reference Manual, EGA+Mouse Board
Mirage Super VGA TVGA-8900 User's Manual
MPC Operations Guide, Manual #1023
Columbia Data Products, Inc.
CDP 1983
Microcomputer Products - 1987 Data Book
NEC Electronics, Inc.
p/n 500105 Aug 1987
NEC uPD70108/70116 Microprocessor User's Manual
p/n 500350 October 1986
provided by NEC Electronics, Inc.
Novell Advanced Netware System Manager's Reference
pcAnywhere User's Guide v2.00
Dynamic Microprocessor Associates, Inc 1986
S-286 User Manual, version 2
Link Computer, 1988
STB VGA Extra/EM
EM-16 BIOS Features
STB Corp.
TesSeRact v1.0 documentation
TCXL 5.1 documentation
Toshiba ND352/356 3.5" Diskette Drive Installation Notes
document number 87019 March 1988
Toshiba America Corporation
Tseng Labs
EVA, EVA/480 BIOS Guide
November 10, 1988
VESA Toolkit v2.0
summer 1991
VideoTrax Installation Guide
Alpha Micro, 1987
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Advanced MSDOS
Ray Duncan
Microsoft Press 1986
Assembly Language Programming for the (written by one of the )
IBM Personal Computer (IBM PC's original )
David J. Bradley (developers - and one of)
Prentice-Hall 1984 (the few good 8087 refs )
Assembly Language Subroutines for MSDOS Computers
Leo J. Scanlon
TAB Books 1986
Atari ST Internals
Gerits, English, & Bruckmann
Abacus Software 1985
Compute!'s Guide to Assembly Language Programming on the IBM PC
COMPUTE! Publications
Compute!'s Mapping the IBM PC and PCjr
Russ Davis
COMPUTE! Publications
DOS Power Tools
Paul Somerson
Bantam Books 1988
DOS: The Complete Reference
Kris Jamsa
Osborne/McGraw-Hill 1987
Exploring the IBM PCjr
Peter Norton
Microsoft Press 1984
Discovering the IBM PCjr
Peter Norton
Microsoft Press 1984
DOS 5: A Developer's Guide
Al Williams
M&T Books, 1991
IBM Video Subsystems
Richard Wilton
Microsoft Press 1988
Inside the IBM PC
Peter Norton
Mapping the IBM PC
Russ Davies/Compute! Magazine
Compute! Books 1986
Memory Resident Utilities, Interrupts, and
Disk Management With MS & PC DOS
Michael Hyman
MIS Press 1987
Microcomputer Interfacing
Bruce A. Artwick
Prentice Hall 1980
Microsoft Systems Journal - March 1987
"Expanded Memory: Writing Programs that Break the 640k Barrier"
Marion Hansen, Bill Krueger, Nick Stuecklen
MS-DOS Encyclopedia
Ray Duncan
Microsoft Press 1988 (first edition)
Modern Operating Systems (this is an updated and revised )
Arthur S. Tanenbaum (version of the OSD&I book below)
Prentice Hall 1991
Network Programming in C (excellent resource for IPX )
Barry Nance (barryn on BIX) (and NETBIOS API info )
Que, 1990
Operating Systems Design and Implementation (this is one of your )
Arthur S. Tanenbaum (OS design references)
Prentice Hall 1987
Programmer's Guide to the IBM PC
Peter Norton
Microsoft Press 1985
Programmer's Problem Solver for the IBM PC, XT, & AT
Robert Jourdain
Prentice Hall 1986
Programming Windows
Charles Petzold
Microsoft Press, 1987
Programming Windows, Second Edition
Charles Petzold
Microsoft Press, 1990
Running MS-DOS
Van Wolverton
Microsoft Press
Supercharging MS-DOS
Van Volverton
Microsoft Press 1986
The 8080a Bugbook
Tony-Larsen-Titus
Howard W. Sams 1977
The 8086 Book (strange - though it's been )
Russell Rector and George Alexy (through a couple of releases)
Osborne/McGraw-Hill 1980 (it's basically just a bunch )
(of old Intel data sheets )
(stamped "PRELIMINARY" )
The IBM Personal Computer from the Inside Out
Murray Sargent III and Richard L. Shoemaker
Addison-Wesley 1984
The IBM ROM BIOS
Ray Duncan
Microsoft Press 1988
The Serious Assembler (prehistoric stuff, but )
Charles A. Crayne and Dian Gerard (some tricks you don't see)
Baen Books 1985 (any more )
Tricks of the MS-DOS Masters
Waite Group
Howard W. Sams 1987
Turbo Pascal Express (lots of ASM routine for TP3)
Robert Jourdain
Brady Books, 1987
Writing DOS Device Drivers in C (this one is a real turkey)
Adams/Tondo
Prentice Hall, 1990
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Microsoft Macro Assembler 4.0, 5.1 documentation
Microsoft C 4.0, 5.0, 5.1, 6.0, 7.0 documentation
Borland Turbo Pascal 3.02a and 6.0, Borland Pascal 7.0, TPW 1.0 and
1.1, Turbo C 2.0 documentation
Novell SFT System Administrator's Reference
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Western Digital, Rodime, Miniscribe, Microscience, Adaptec, Storage
Technologies, and Connor Peripherals were kind enough to send spec
sheets on most of their products which helped to expand and verify the
hard drive information in Appendix 6.
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A large amount of miscellaneous information came from various
computer magazines. Documenting what came from where would be an
experience all its own. A great deal of information came from
articles by Michael Mefford, Jim Prosise, and Charles Petzold of PC
Magazine, and Neil Rubenking, Jeff Duntemann, and Ray Duncan, who get
around a lot.
Byte
( Byte's kinda weird. They have some really neat, well-
researched stuff interspersed with mindless drivel. Still,
they print some stuff you absolutely, positively won't find
anywhere else. )
C Users Journal
( Despite the name, it's mainly about programming DOS machines)
C'T (Computer Technik)
( If you read German, this one is sorta like PC Magazine was
in its heyday. )
Computer Language
( I never decided if I liked CL or not. Maybe I'm not the
sort of programmer they're writing for... ) (04/93 - just
got word CL is dead. Maybe nobody else knew who they were
writing for either)
Computer Shopper
( Though primarily advertising, some information sneaks in
from time to time. )
Dr. Dobb's Journal
( I always thought the old title, "Doctor Dobbs' Journal of
Computer Calisthenics and Orthodontia - Running Light
Without Overbyte" was a killer name, but nobody asked me. )
InfoWorld
( I never really figured out how a weekly magazine could so
often be both late *and* wrong with their stories, but IW
tries hard. Still, you often hear about rumblings you'd
never find out about in the slicks. The National Enquirer
of the computer world? )
Micro Cornucopia
( R.I.P - it was great while it lasted. )
Microsoft Systems Journal
( Hideously expensive and mostly oriented to Windows, the
early issues had some really good stuff )
Midnight Engineering
( This one's hard to classify. It's hardcore computer with a
dash of entrepreneurship, bizarre as the combination may
sound. I like it when I can find it. )
PC Magazine
( Despite their new "management format" in mid '89, PC Mag
still has some good techie stuff from time to time. I guess
the bean counters thought managers were more important than
programmers. )
PC Resource
( There was rarely anything of interest in PC Resource, but
every now and then I found something. Now defunct. )
PC Tech Journal
( "Tell 'em what you're going to say, tell 'em what you're
saying, tell 'em what you just said." - and don't send us
no steenking submissions unless they're in WordPerfect
format! Despite their fascist policies, every now and then
they printed something useful. The Little Rock Wild Bunch
referred to it as "PC Tech Urinal," an apt monicker. Now
defunct. )
PC Techniques
( This is the magazine PC Tech Journal tried to advertise
itself as. Pure programming, written by programmers for
programmers, without too many "journalists" pissing in the
text. Try it! )
PC Week
( This one used to be a clone of InfoWorld, but since their
takeover by PC Magazine they've become a sort of mutant
cross between IW and PCMag. )
Programmer's Journal
( This is a nice magazine, though expensive. - now defunct )
Tech Specialist (now Windows/DOS Developer's Journal)
( One of the few really good magazines for bit-twiddlers.
Haven't seen a GUI phone-dialer shootout yet! )
Windows Tech Journal
( This one is sort of neat even if you don't like Windows. It's
another "by programmers, for programmers" rag, lots of code
with a dash of humor.)
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various computer bulletin board systems, including
Byte Information Exchange (BIX)
(check out ibm.dos/old.secrets.2 and ibm.dos/secrets.3)
Effusive thanks to the gang in the ibm.exchange - these guys are
*sharp*. In alphabetic order:
barryn, billn, bkep, bscherry, bstrauss, daiken, dgh, dmick, dnanian,
dondumitru, drifkind, geary, glass, gmussar, greenber, hfishman,
j_vanderbilt, jfleming, jndunlap, jlussmeyer, johnf, jsloman, jsprowl,
jswitzer, jrichards, karenk, killer1, kquirk, mabrash, matt.trask,
mcowley, mfsargent, mike123, mheller, mlavelle, rbabcock, rbrukardt,
rduncan, roedy, ronlepine, sbc, sjgrant, skluger, tanj, terjem,
twagner, wardc, wcowley, and all the guys whose names I forgot...
<grin>
Compuserve's Microsoft beta forums
FIDOnet international network (various technical echos)
GEnie IBM RT and Borland RT
NorthAmericaNet (NaNet) programming echos
Canada Remote Systems (Toronto, Canada)
RIME PCRelay international network (IBM, Technical, Programming echos)
TelePath (M&T Publishing)
usenet ibm*.* groups
...plus I hit the various Wildnet, and GT-Net echos from time to time!
*********************************
The following text files were of use. Bear in mind that some of
them may be seen under several different names. The author's name is
given as it appears in the documentation (if any). As you can see,
this stuff predated the ARC-vs-ZIP wars...
10H-BUG ASM 4680 29/01/87 bug in 2.x int 21h/fn10h Ray Duncan
1PT4MB INF 5120 3/10/87 1.44Mb drives Clyde Washburn 70305,1211
2_JOYSTK.ZIP 723 17/4/89 dual joystick adapter pinout <no name>
2EH ASM 2969 3/03/87 info on undoc'd int 2Eh David Gwillim
386BUG ARC 9216 15/10/87 bug in early 80386 chips Compaq Corp.
8086 3 10572 5/12/88 dump of Fidonet?? 8086 conf?? <no name>
8259 ARC 2826 15/03/88 info on 8259 chip <no name>
ASM-ADRS ARC 6144 20/12/87 low memory vectors Malcolm McCorquodale
ATCMDS ARC 3072 20/03/88 Hayes 1200 baud command set <no name>
BACKDOOR UPL 26115 11/12/89 "back door" through PSP John Switzer
BIOSDOC ARC 34816 3/11/87 very good function list David E. Powell
BIXDOS1 ARC 155648 14/12/87 BIX "MSDOS Secrets" #1 <no name>
BUG40DOS ARC 3200 18/08/88 bugs in DOS 4.0 "Doug"
CAS ARC 33792 27/10/88 Communicating Applications Standard 1.0A
DCA, Intel Corp
CCPM86 ARC 68238 14/10/89 list of Concurrent CP/M calls <no name>
CDOS ARC 35584 18/07/89 list of Concurrent DOS calls Guy Scharf
CDOS2_ ARC 227200 18/07/89 list of Concurrent DOS calls J.F. Jankura
CDOSCALL ARC 19968 18/07/89 list of Concurrent DOS calls J.F. Jankura
CNBDOC ZIP 32012 9/02/91 CBIS Net Bios Programmer's Ref.
Tom Thompson
CUFEXT ARC 13228 13/03/90 common file extensions J.W. Rider
DEBUGTUT ARC 15655 23/04/88 DEBUG tutorial <no name>
possibly David Whitman?
DIAGNOSE ARC 14336 1/01/86 memory errcodes
Jerry Schneider, Arnold Kischi
DISK144 ARC 23086 16/10/88 info on 1.44Mb diskettes <no name>
DISKTYPE ARC 5073 14/04/88 IBM floppy formats <no name>
DOOM ARC 9216 29/09/88 hard drive information <no name>
DOS-SIZE ARC 787 27/03/88 size of DOS files 1.1-3.1 <no name>
DOS3TXT ARX 9168 31/07/85 list of DOS/BIOS ints, data areas
Dan Rollins
DOS32 ARC 17408 31/05/88 command list for DOS 3.2 <no name>
DOS3BUGS ARC 5639 15/10/87 acknowledged bugs in DOS 3.0-3.2 IBM Corp.
DOS40 ARC 15625 22/07/88 IBM announcement of DOS 4.0 IBM Corp.
DOS401 ARC 18178 19/10/88 errors in DOS 4.0 IBM Corp.
DOS40B ARC 27008 26/08/88 Compuserve thread on DOS 4.0 <no name>
DOS40FAT ARC 1510 11/09/88 DOS 4.0 File Allocation Table Mike Austin
DOS40FUN ZOO 3410 31/12/99 DOS 4.0 int 24, 25, etc Pat Myrto
DOS40HLP ARC 53376 28/08/88 DOS 4.0 command set <no name>
DOS40TXT ARC 46169 16/10/88 DOS 4.0 problems & info <no name>
DOS4TIPS ARC 1735 19/09/88 problems with DOS 4.0 IBM Corp.
DOSBUG TXT 1024 15/10/87 info on 2.0 volume label <no name>
DOSGUIDE ARC 21344 21/02/88 DOS tutorial Carrington B. Dixon
DOSINT ARC 4201 15/03/88 list of DOS 2.0 function calls John Chapman
DOSNOTES ARC 5052 15/03/88 info on DOS undoc fns. <no name>
DOSREF ARC 9216 21/01/87 partial list of PC BIOS calls <no name>
DOSREF ARC 62052 23/08/86 device driver info "Cracker"
DOSTIPS ARC 28926 15/03/88 info on DOS John Chapman
DOSTIPS1 ARC 159657 25/11/85 various DOS info Dean R. Wood
DOSTIPS3 ARC 59264 25/01/88 various DOS tips (different) Dean R. Wood
DOSUNDOC ARC 3840 03/05/86 one of the very first interrupt lists
Spyros Sakellariadis
DRIVPARM ARC 11264 7/01/88 info on DRIVPARM parameters Joan Friendman
EGATEK ARC 8704 15/03/88 IBM EGA registers Bill Frantz
EMS40BIX ARC 3802 21/09/87 BIX announcement of EMS 4.0 BIX
ENVIRONM ARC 4255 18/09/88 info on DOS environment Jan Fagerholm
ESC_CODE ARC 3072 3/10/88 Laserjet setup codes S. Noh
FILEIO ARC 8192 24/07/88 TSRs and INDOS flag <no name>
FLOPPIES ARC 9216 2/11/87 info on floppy media Ted Jensen
FOSSIL ARC 9031 15/07/87 list of FOSSIL functions Vincent Periello
FXN4BH ASM 4503 1/01/80 odd 4Bh behavior Ray Duncan
HAYESET2 ARC 6479 4/09/86 modem commands Ruth Lubow, Fowler Brown
HD-DATA ARC 4096 19/07/87 list of hard drives & specs <no name>
I've seen many similar files. I believe the
original may have been a file or bulletin on
Sparta BBS
HDINFO ARC 11264 19/11/87 updated version of above, evidently by
someone else <no name>
HDNOISE ARC 4159 11/11/87 hard disk information Clancy Malloy
HDTIPS ARC 9660 11/10/87 hard disk information Barry Gordon
IBMTAB ARC 7882 15/03/88 general IBM PC tech info John S. Lou
IBMTECH ARC 136064 4/11/88 error codes, other info IBM Corp.
INT-MDOS ARC 20682 31/07/85 one of the original INT lists
Ross Greenberg
INTER189 LZH 156368 25/06/89 interrupt list Ralf Brown
INTERRUP ARC 157440 19/09/88 interrupt vector list Ralf Brown
INTERRPT ARC 42632 4/04/88 interrupt vector list Marshall Presnell
this is a very nice list and some programming
information. If I'd come across it way back
then it would have saved a ton of typing <sigh>
JARGON ARC 49274 16/07/88 dictionary of computer terms <no name>
LE_MCLCK.ASM 3489 3/27/86 undoc'd Leading Edge BIOS fns
Bob Plouffe
LIM-40 ARC 21504 15/10/87 info on LIM 4.0 Stephen Satchell
LISTINTS ARC 6144 3/12/87 small interrupt list <no name>
MCB ARC 5120 24/07/88 info on DOS Memory Control Blocks
David Gwillim
MIDIBOOK ZIP 1338 09/08/89 MIDI book bibliography Chris Bosshardt
MNP-TEXT ARC 6144 30/09/88 MNP modem info Mike Focke
MOUSENG ARC 10240 13/08/88 Norton Guide file for mouse programming,
with C examples <no name>
MSLOOKUP ARC 58368 25/12/87 interrupt and function listing
Frank Bonita
MS-OS2 ARC 25600 15/10/87 MS press release on OS/2 Microsoft Corp.
MSINT125 ARC 48128 12/01/88 interrupt vector listing Ralf Brown
MDOSDOC EXE 47104 4/21/91 MultiDos Plus 4.00 Prog. Ref.
Nanosoft Inc.
NETBIOS ARC 17280 29/10/88 NetBIOS tutorial & summary Tom Thompson
NOVELINT ARC 4531 18/10/88 NetBIOS calls Marc Guyot
OCOM_520 ARC 53632 19/08/88 FOSSIL tutorial and functions Rick Moore
ODDITY ARC 3072 24/07/88 int 2Eh description Daniel Briggs
PINS ARC 3072 18/01/88 pinouts of various connectors <no name>
PORTDIAG ZIP 2261 27/05/89 pinouts of various connectors <no name>
PRNBIOS ZIP 7519 29/10/89 programming info on printer Michael Day
QUES40 ARC 9081 1/09/88 info on DOS 4.0 IBM Corp.
RAW_COOK ARC 2048 15/10/87 info on DOS raw and cooked modes
<no name>
RESETSWT TXT 3584 23/01/86 add a reset switch to a PC Don Jenkins
RLLHINTS ARC 12288 17/10/87 RLL controller info Steve Sneed
RLLMISC ARC 5120 17/10/87 info on RLL controllers Richard Driggers
RLLSTORY ARC 9718 31/07/88 good info on RLL coding Pete Holzmann
SEAGATE ARC 2048 3/03/88 specs for many Seagate drives Jim McKown
SECRETS2 ARC 179625 17/04/88 BIX "MS-DOS Secrets" #2 <no name>
SERCBL2 ARC 4372 16/10/88 serial cable pinouts Lee Zeis
SERIAL TXT 1091 07/04/87 PCjr serial cable pinout Don Watkins
SM2400 ARC 2296 9/08/86 Hayes 2400 baud command set <no name>
SPOOL DOC 29704 03/28/89 Versa-Spool API Jeff Newbro
SSTEP ARC 2300 11/07/89 explanation of CPU single-step
Ed Burnette
ST225 ARC 11264 7/10/87 optimizing ST225 and WD cont. Neil Erbe
TANDON ARC 3612 21/02/88 info on Tandon drives David Welcher
TECH ARC 27827 8/05/88 misc tech info - Fidonet? <no name>
TOOLS C 14032 8/10/89 Grid laptop special functions
Fredrick Coffman
TOS 938 24/03/88 TOS function calls Mike Crawford
TOSHTEAC ZIP 624 9/07/89 pinout for ext. drive on T1100 "Dave"
TRYST ARC 29312 29/10/88 DOS and hard disk info Amy Goebel
UNDOCINT 21H 7168 14/04/87 undocumented DOS calls Peter Holzmann
VESA TXT 41269 01/17/90 VESA standard VESA
VGAKIT DOC 7634 05/04/90 VGA programming kit John Bridges
VGAPIN ARC 1252 24/10/88 VGA pinout "Mike"
WD-27X ARC 6144 10/10/87 WD 27X HD controller setup Steve Shelton
WDCONFIG ARC 5504 11/10/87 WD-1002 WXS setup Richard Driggers
WDCONT ARC 11264 25/12/87 info on WD hard disk controllers
Peter Fales
XEB1210 ARC 7947 18/07/87 Xebec HD controller setup
Richard Driggers
XEBEC ARC 1036 30/04/88 setup for Xebec HD controller
Richard Driggers
XEBECTEC ARC 1834 30/04/88 setup for Xebec 1210 <no name>
XGADEMO LZH 23552 01/27/91 IBM XGA programming info v.50 Bert Tyler
XMS ARC 75776 1/08/88 Microsoft Extended Memory
Specification 1.0 Microsoft Corporation
XTCHARTS ARC 12416 4/11/88 ports, charts <no name>
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4DOS.DOC Tom Rawson 4DOS int 2Eh, 2Fh calls, SHELL= bug
APARDOS4.TXT IBM Corp. bug reports for DOS 4.0
APARDOS5.TXT IBM Corp. bug reports for DOS 5.0
BOOKS.TXT Chriss Bosshardt bibliography of MIDI references
BMP.HDR Jim Kent MS .BMP format
CED10D Chris Dunford CED interrupt calls
DESQ10.ASM James H. LeMay DESQview API calls
GLOSSARY.ARC no author name computer terms
LANTSTIC.DOC LANtastic adware peer-to-peer LAN calls
NBRCV.C Paul McGinnis NetBIOS API calls
NETTUT.DOC Charles L. Hedrick TCP/IP network
DOSREF isn't a tutorial, and sometimes you need a tutorial.
Microsoft has finally written a half-decent one - The MS-DOS
Programmer's Reference, Microsoft Press, 1991, ISBN 1-55615-329-5.
This is the DOS 5.0 Tech Ref. It covers data structures and DOS
programming concepts clearly. However, it has no information on other
DOS versions, nor does it (of course) cover undocumented calls.
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Nothing gets written in a vacuum, and I'd like to express my thanks
to all the people who have been good enough to furnish information and
support:
(in alphabetical order)
Tommy Apple, Mike Crawford, Herman Diagostino, Joe Felix, Ron Melson,
Denis Murphy, & Ben Sansing,
who all loaned me documentation and reference material for
so long that some of them have forgotten to ask for their
stuff back
And those people who were kind enough to help out:
Mike Blaszczak, MA:
BIX: blaszczak
who went rampaging through work and client's sites to find and
document various model ID bytes, plus plenty of information on
MS OBJ file formats
Carl Bretteville, Drammen Norway:
who sent me a complete Concurrent DOS Programmer's Reference,
considerably enriching the Norwegian postal service thereby
William Cravener
CIS: 72230,1306
who allowed me to include his PORT-IN.OUT file
John Dallman
jgd@cix.clink.co.uk
more information on eDOS 4.0
Herman Diagostino, Manassas VA: who worked up the TECHMENU menu file
and provided a copy of the rare IBM DOS 4.0 Technical
Reference and a copy of the original MSDOS Encyclopedia from
Microsoft, info on the Pelican 5.5mb floppy drive, IBM DOS 4.0
command reference, many hard drive specs, OS/2 DOS Box
differences
James Drenter, Davenport IA:
additional info on int 1Ch
David Dorling, Buderim, Australia:
found one embarrassing error in the device driver info and
provided many expansions and clarifications
Chris Dunford, Columbia MD:
CIS: 76703,2002
who sent me a copy of the PCED 2.0 API and let me use his
INTPROTO.TXT
Sean Goggin
sean@u36.kwnet.on.ca
several partition table ID bytes from his usenet ID byte list
Steve Grant, Jersey City NJ:
BIX: sjgrant
who granted permission to include his excellent SYSID program
with my distribution disks, furnished several model IDs
Roedy Green, Vancouver BC Canada:
BIX: roedy
many names and addresses for Appendix 5, serial and parallel
port details and cabling, granted permission to include some
of his very educational essays with my distribution disks,
plus many details on DOS disk I/O
David Holm
BIX: dgh
Reported minor error in int 15h/4Fh and some TI Pro oddities
Brad Kepley
BIX: bkep
furnished copy of Davis' DESQview Programming book
Michael Koepke, Wood Dale IL:
pinouts on EGA feature connector, PS/2 keyboard connector, DR-
DOS programming information, much info on Digital's DR-DOS,
and the loan of some of his books
Tom Jeffries, Oakland CA:
BIX: tjeffries
furnished a copy of the Sound Blaster SDK
Curt Lankford, Little Rock, AR:
loaned his copy of the AT&T 6300 Plus Hardware Technical
Reference
Ron Lepine
BIX: ronlepine
much TI Professional keyboard/video programming info
Alan R. Levinstone, Garland TX:
80286 LOADALL instruction
BIOS Data Area floppy control parameters 40:8B, 40:8F, 40:90
Brian Long, Twyford UK:
provided a copy of the then-nearly-unavailable DPMI 0.9
specification, plus port and address info
John Man, Brighton UK:
JHL14@phx.cam.ac.uk
Consensys V4 partition ID byte
Keith Meade, Rochester MN:
BIX: keithm
who provided a Microsoft Windows 2.11 SDK, copy of IBM TopView
Feico Nater, Hengelo, Netherlands:
additions to FCB calls, several pages of expansions and
clarifications
Bruce Nevins, Tucson AZ:
BIX: bnevins
Irwin low-level tape drive info, DEC PC info
Patrick O'Riva, San Jose CA:
info on what happens to the interleave when the BIOS is
finished, and for his interesting online assembly-language
magazine
Klaus Overhage, Stuttgart Germany:
FANSI-CONSOLE system calls, and translating the TechRef into
German
August C. Quint, Germany:
CIS: 100023,1545
bug reports on 8250 information, disassembly of DOS 3.1, and
many useful comments
Tom Rawson, MD:
BIX: trawson
DOS device driver loading information
Peter Rejto, Minneapolis MN:
rejto@math.umn.edu
many C.A.R.E. packages of documentation and data sheets -
hardly a month goes by without something from Peter!
John Richards, England:
BIX: jrichards
European DOS 4.0 information
Chris Rutkowski, Botswana:
Chris donated the list of Epson printer codes that appear in
Appendix 36
Ben Sansing, Little Rock AR:
ben.sansing@chaos.lrk.ar.us
ANSI.SYS information, documentation for the NEC V20/30 chips,
reported error in register chart in Chapter 4, loaned his copy
of PC-MOS/386 for testing
Mike Sargent, Canada:
BIX: mfsargent
sent a copy of the IBM AT Technical Reference with BIOS
listings
Hans Schleichert, Marburg Germany:
information on int 2Fh, fn OAEh (internal DOS commands). Good
thing I took some German in high school... <grin>
Paul Slootman, Borne, Netherlands
RealTek VGA board video modes
John Switzer, CA:
BIX: jswitzer
who allowed me to include his discoveries on alternate DOS
entries and file mysteries. (see BACKDOOR.ZIP on BIX, or Oct
1990 Dr. Dobbs')
Fred Thompson, Rapid City SD:
loaned his Sound Blaster manual, provided much info on
graphics programming
Matt Trask:
BIX: matt.trask
who provided a complete copy of the TopView Programmer's
Reference and some OS/2 programming information
Richard Vogh, Marietta GA:
found several embarrassing errors in the boot sector chart in
Chapter 8. The shame! The shame! <sigh>
Jim Wenzel, North Little Rock AR:
jim.wenzel@grapevne.lrk.ar.us
more PC model ID codes, loaned his copy of the Windows 3.0 SDK
...and these companies:
Alloy Computer Products, Marlborough MA:
Joe Souza and Frank Gladu, who provided detailed information
on the APIs for NTNX, ANSK, and 386 Multiware.
Artisoft, Tucson AZ:
Eileen, Sherri, and the beta support people
Digital Research, Monterey CA:
provided review copies of DR-DOS 5.0 and DRMDOS
H&R Block / Compuserve
CIS: 70003,4100
Michael Finney, who gave permission to reproduce the GIF89a
standard
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond WA:
for beta-test versions of DOS 5.0, Windows 3.1, other
products, information on DOS 5 and the DOSSHELL API
NanoSoft, Natick MA:
Jack van Schouwen, allowed the use of their API materials
verbatim
The Software Link, Atlanta GA:
provided a review copy of PC/MOS-386 and the programming guide
Qualitas, Bethesda MD:
Bill, Andy, and all the gang
Quarterdeck, Santa Monica CA:
Russ, Bob, Michael, and the guys in beta and tech support
Special thanks to Chris Dunford, who donated his "CED" program to
the public domain. If it wasn't for CED, I would likely have
abandoned MSDOS machines entirely and bought a Macin...uh... something
else; and to Haruyasu Yoshizaki for allowing unrestricted use of his
LHarc program used to compress the files on these diskettes.
Dave Williams
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Jacksonville, AR
