Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bcars8!bnrgate!bigsur!bnr-rsc!mlord
From: mlord@bnr-rsc.UUCP (Mark Lord)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Some questions
Keywords: keyboard/mouse programming, base adresses in protected mode
Message-ID: <2831@bnr-rsc.UUCP>
Date: 8 May 90 14:11:14 GMT
References: <1990May7.182147.714@urz.unibas.ch<
Reply-To: mlord@bnr-rsc.UUCP (Mark Lord)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
Lines: 35

In article <1990May7.182147.714@urz.unibas.ch< ganter@urz.unibas.ch writes:
<... Afer having read about 
<fifty books on PC's, it seems I have broken trough that wall of 
<pseudo-protection of IBM. But some questions are still open:
<
<1. How do I program the so-called intelligent keyboard of an AT ?
<There is a rumor You can switch back into real mode with a shutdown
<value in the RTC and programming the keyboard.
<
<2. Could anybody give me the full (!!) declarations of the microsoft
<mouse interrupt 0x33 functions (not only function 0,1 and two, there 
<are much more) perhaps in C ?
<
<3. Where is the location of the video-card and ROM in protected mode?
<Does the video-card base remain on its physical real mode adress, or
<is it swapped hard-wired to a higher adress like the ROM should do 
<(if IBM did not change that automatic switching of the iAPX286/386/486
<on initialization) ?

The answers to these and other nitty-gritty questions
can nearly always be found in a book entitled 
	"The PC Programmers SourceBook" - microsoft press (?)

Walk, no.. RUN to your local computer shop and buy/order a copy today.

WARNING: This is not a book for novices.. it contains very little in the
way of English or Swahilie [sic] writings for the hand-holding set.

Instead, it is crammed full of technical facts on just about everything
to do with IBM/MICROSOFT pinouts/interfaces/standards etc..
-- 
 ______Mark S. Lord______________________ ______________________________
|    ..uunet!bnrgate!carrsc!mlord        | These are only MY opinions.  |
| or:  bnr-rsc!mlord@bnrgate             | I charge for official views. |
|________________________________________|______________________________|