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From: cur022%cluster@ukc.ac.uk (Bob Eager)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Direct hardware accessing (Bypassing BIOS)
Message-ID: <22219.2809b1e4@cluster@ukc.ac.uk>
Date: 15 Apr 91 14:00:04 GMT
References: <2325@pdxgate.UUCP>
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
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In article <2325@pdxgate.UUCP>, berggren@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Eric Berggren) writes:
>   I am looking for information regarding access and control standards for
> devices such as disk controllers, keyboards, etc. for direct accessing
> without BIOS support (trust me). Any reference material available on this
> subject? Thanx.

Aside from the IBM Technical Reference manuals, and the Intel data sheets on
the various chips (interrupt controller, etc) there are the Phoenix series
of books on BIOSes (published by Addison-Wesley). These books contain details
of the hardware interface to which the BIOS works.
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