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From: jsm@vax1.UUCP (Jon Meltzer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: IBM PC hacker's guide sought
Message-ID: <635@vax1.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jan 88 01:57:53 GMT
References: <7734@sunybcs.UUCP>
Reply-To: jsm@vax1.UUCP (Jon Meltzer)
Organization: Cornell Computer Services, Ithaca NY
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In article <7734@sunybcs.UUCP> ugfailau@sunybcs.UUCP (Fai Lau) writes:
>
>	Hi, I'm looking for a bible for hacking IBM PC's.
>I don't know which books are good so I need recommendations.
>I saw Peter Norton's programmer's Guide for the IBM PC,
>is that any good? I need a book that contains the entire
>PC architect, the specifications, the system calls, the
>memory map, the port designs, etc., including data
>storage device, video adaptor, and in a word, everything.
>It's ok not to have a circuits diagram, as I don't want
>to hack down to the hardware level (soldering iron?).
>But else I need something that's truly comprehensive.

Don't get Norton. The book you want is "Advanced MSDOS" by Ray Duncan
(Microsoft Press) - the best coverage I've seen of DOS internals.

Other books worth looking for -
"Programmer's Reference Manual for IBM Personal Computers" by Armbrust and
Forgeron (Dow-Jones-Irwin)  

"Programmer's Guide to PC and PS/2 Video Systems" by Richard Wilton
(Microsoft Press)

"Compute!s Mapping the IBM PC and PCjr " by Russ Davies (Compute! Books) -
somewhat out of date (as you can tell by the title), but the only
memory map book I've seen.

Good luck ...

-- 
Jon Meltzer
Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics, Cornell University

"If you are not a myth, whose reality are you? " - Sun Ra