nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (06/11/91)
I heartily recommend that everyone who programs on a PC look at helppc21. It's an online reference work for everything associated with a PC -- opcodes (through the '486), interrupts (dos, bios, mouse), ASCII charts, keycode charts, hardware descriptions (connectors, chips, bus lines), C functions, etc. It works from the command line, or as a TSR. Written by David Jurgens, it's a $25 piece of shareware. You'd spend at *least* that on just one book that wouldn't have one tenth the information. This is the first piece of shareware that I've ever registered -- the first one that I've felt was worth it. I found it on simtel20: pd1:<msdos.info> HELPPC21.ZIP Extensive PC Programmer's information database I've also uploaded it to grape.ecs.clarkson.edu, where you can get it by modem. Grape is (315)268-6667, 12/2400 baud, 8N1, 24 hours. You may need to generate a break to switch to the right baud rate. It's stored on grape in: grape.ecs.clarkson.edu:pub/msdos/prog/helppc21.zip Same pathname for FTP and modem. -- --russ <nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu> I'm proud to be a humble Quaker. Clear cutting is criminal, spiking trees is criminal, and using hyperbole of this magnitude in a serious discussion is criminal. -- Irv Chidsey