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In article <1993Jan1.172858.24858@comp.lancs.ac.uk> daves@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Dave Stow) writes:
> ... - I am after something that will
>give me information on programming the *86 chips - particularly memory 
>management stuff, I/O hardware, and the various protection modes.

Try the Intel "i386 Microprocessor Programmer's Reference Manual", or the
"i486 ...", "i486SX ...".  These should be available from major book stores,
they are published jointly by Intel & Osborne McGraw-Hill.

They give quite a lot of details about the instruction set and use of 
registers for memory management (protected & virtual modes).  I haven't
had occassion to really use the book for the areas you mention, it looks
like a useful -reference- but doesn't give much guidance on actually
using the information.  Room for another book on the subject, anybody got
a better suggestion?

(Oh yes, I have the "i486 .." version #22.95 in 1990.  If you don't mind
buying without looking at it first you can probably find them in the RS and
Farnell catalogues - I don't have them at hand to check).

Hope this helps,
Anthony Naggs
Software/Electronics Engineer                   P O Box 1080, Peacehaven
                                                East Sussex  BN10 8PZ
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