Direct hardware accessing (Bypassing BIOS)

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From: Eric Berggren
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1991 08:02

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  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.

-e.b.

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