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From: Jerzy Tarasiuk
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1992 15:44

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>>>>> On 5 Oct 92 18:12:40 GMT, johnb@bilton.demon.co.uk (John Burton) said:
John> I'm looking for hardware programming information about pc compatibles.
John> Particularly the DMA, interrupt controller, and hard and floppy disk
John> controllers, although any information about other hardware anyone has
John> would be welcome.

DMA, interrupt controller and floppy disk controller are made using
Intel chips (8237, 8259, 8272) and they are all described in Intel
Microprocessor&Peripheral Handbook. Of course need know how they are
connected to the system and this is described in Technical Reference
of the computer (I know IBM published T.R. for PC/XT and for PC/AT).
Also, BIOS listing in the T.R. contains a lot of useful information.
If looking for these manuals is too hard for you, I can look for some
programs accessing these devices I wrote. However, I didn't try do
anything sophisticated to interrupt controller, do you really need
to do (with the I.C.) more than is done in BIOS ?

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