[net.micro.cpm] cp/m innards

D-ROGERS@EDWARDS-2060.ARPA (08/30/85)

At the risk of sending incredibly green (which i am), could someone
recommend a book on CP/M?  Of all that i could find @ my friendly local
B.Dalton, *Soul of CP/M* by Waite & LaFore seemed to have the best balance
of detail vs. plain language (cursory inspection, no purchase - yet).  Is
there anything better that won't put me to sleep?  Thanks Ahead.      der
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rlk@chinet.UUCP (Richard L. Klappal) (09/03/85)

Check out David Cortesi's books --
	Inside CP/M - Holt Rinehart Winston 1982 ISBN 0-03-059558-4
	A Programmer's Notebook - Reston Publ 1983 ISBN 0-8359-5641-5
if you really want legible info on the internals, and hooking to them.
They're deep, but fully cross-referenced and explained.


Richard Klappal

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LOWANS.WBST@XEROX.ARPA (09/03/85)

Osborne/McGgrah-Hill's CP/M User Guide By Thom Hogan is very good.
							Paul

cem@intelca.UUCP (Chuck McManis) (09/04/85)

> At the risk of sending incredibly green (which i am), could someone
> recommend a book on CP/M?  Of all that i could find @ my friendly local
> B.Dalton, *Soul of CP/M* by Waite & LaFore seemed to have the best balance
> of detail vs. plain language (cursory inspection, no purchase - yet).  Is
> there anything better that won't put me to sleep?  Thanks Ahead.      der
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Top three (in my personal opinion of course)

"The CP/M Programmers Handbook" by Andy Johnson-Laird 
"Inside CP/M" by Cortesi
"CP/M Users Guide" 3rd Ed. Pub by Osborne/McGraw-Hill

--Chuck
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