** Programmer's Technical Reference for MSDOS and the IBM PC **
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Additional Readings...
I don't have and haven't seen most of this stuff, but I've come across
mentions of it. This list is purely FYI...
IBM's literature guide lists the following manuals:
Hardware Technical References:
PS/2 Model 25 $31.50 75X1055
PS/2 Model 30 $82.50 68X2201
PS/2 Model 30/286 $26.75 01F0237
PC $33.00 6322507 (the original)
PC/AT $115.00 6280070
supplement for AT/339 $54.50 6280099 (enhanced 8mHz)
XT/286 $55.00 68X2210
XT and Portable $54.50 6280089
Convertible $82.50 6280648
PCjr $38.50 1502293 (availability varies)
PS/2 BIOS Interface $137.00 68X2341 (no source code listing)
Advanced BIOS Interface $50 68X2288
DOS 3.3 Technical Ref. $93.00 6280059 (no reference for 4.0)
DOS 4.0 Command Ref. $31.50 6280253 (commands only)
8514/A Developer's Guide $26.75 68X2279
There is supposed to be a DOS 4.0 Technical Reference, but there's no name or
part number listed in the official IBM literature. You might check with your
local IBM retailer. (hah!)
DOS 4.0 Technical Ref. $--.-- 6280254 (not listed in catalog)
IBM NetBIOS Application
Development Guide (API) $49.25 68X2270 (not listed in catalog)
address:
IBM Technical Directory 800-426-7282
PO Box 2009 414-633-8108
Racine WI 53404-3336 BC, Canada 112-800-465-1234
Canada 800-465-1234
catalogs are free
Zenith Data Systems' "MS-DOS version 2 Programmer's Utility" comes with MASM,
a version of the MS-DOS Programmer's Reference from Microsoft, the assembly
language source for Zenith's ANSI.SYS driver, an editor, an assortment of
filters and utilities, and the source listing for the "device dependent"
portion of MS-DOS for the Z-151.
"Document Content Architecture: Revisable - Form - Text Reference"
IBM Document SC23-0758-1
IGES (International Graphics Exchange Specification) 3.0 documentation,
Global Engineering Documents (800) 854-7179. Part number NBSIR 86-3359, NBS.
ISBN 0-672-22027-X "Interfacing To the IBM Personal Computer" by
Lewis C. Eggebrecht, Howard W Sams & Co., Indianapolis, IN.
Intel Application Note AP-133, "Getting Started with the Numeric Data
Processor," by Bill Rash. February 1981.
Intel iAPX 286 Programmer's Reference Manual, including the iAPX 286
Numeric Supplement, Intel part no. 210498-003. Has some reasonably useful
example codes in section 4, including ASCII to binary and vice versa on
pages 4-7 to 4-14 and trig functions on 4-18 to 4-23. The programming
style in these examples is rather bizarre but they are better than nothing.
Intel 80387 Programmer's Reference Manual, Intel part no. 231917-001.
Various example listings on pages 7-7 to 7-17, including ASCII to binary
and binary to ASCII conversions and raising a number to a power. No trig
routines in this manual because the 80387 has built-in FSIN, FCOS, and FSINCOS
instructions and generalized FPTAN and FPATAN instructions that make
subroutines unnecessary.
Hercules sells a graphics library for the Herc board called GRAPHX for $50.
DoD Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria (popularly known as "The
Orange Book) GPO Stock No 008-000-00461-7 Cost $6.00
Information Interchange Standards:
ANSI X 3.15-1976 (FIPS 16-1)
Bit Sequencing In Serial-By-Bit Data Transmission.
ANSI X3.16-1976 (FIPS 17-1)
Character Structure and Parity-Sense, Serial-By-Bit.
ANSI X3.25-1976 (FIPS 18-1)
Character Structure and Parity-Sense, Parallel-By-Bit.
ANSI X3.4-1977 (FIPS 1-1)
Code for Information Interchange
ANSI X3.41-1974 (FIPS 35)
Code Extension Techniques for Use With 7-Bit Coded Characters.
ANSI X3.64-1979 (FIPS 86)
Additional Controls for Use With...
ANSI X3.32-1973 (FIPS 1)
Graphic Representation of the Control Characters.
ANSI X3.78-1981
Representation of Vertical Carriage positoning Characters.
ANSI X3.42-1975
Representation of numeric values in Character Strings.
ANSI X3.98-1983
Page Image Format (PIF), Text, for Information Systems.
ANSI X3.28-1976
Procedure for the Use of Communications Control Characters.
ANSI X3.66-1979 (FIPS 71)
Advanced Data Communications Control Procedures (ADCCP)
Data Encryption Standards:
ANSI-X3.92-1981
Data Encryption Algorithm
ANSI-X3.105-1983
Data Link Encryption
ANSI-X3.106-1983
Modes of Operation of Data Encryption Algorithm
Serial Interface Standards:
RS-232-C Aug 1969 (June 1981)
Interface Between Data Terminal Equipment (DTE) and
Data Communications Equipment (DCE)
Bulletin #9 May 1971 (Application Notes)
...reviews methods of operation...service and trans-
mission facility characteristics...
Bulletin #12 Nov 1977 (Application Notes)
Interconnection Between RS-449 and RS-232-C ...
Bulletin #14 Mar 1982 (Application Notes)
Loop Test Circuits Not Defined in RS-232-C
RS-336-A Mar 1979
Interface Between DTE and Automatic Calling Equipment
RS-449 Nov 1977
RS-449-1 Addendum 1 Feb 1980
General Purpose 37- and 9-Position Interface for DTE
and Data Circuit-Terminating Equipment (DCE)...
Standards Groups:
AFIP (Federal Information Processing Standards)
Office of Technical Information and Publications
National Bureau of Standards
Washington, D.C. 20234
ANSI American National Standards Institute, Inc.
1430 Broadway
New York, New York 10018
BELL ??
EIA Electronic Industries Association
2001 Eye Street
Washington, D.C. 20006
CCITT ??
ISO International Standards Organization
(available through ANSI)
Coding and Information Theory by Richard W. Hamming (Prentice-Hall, 1980)
Error Correcting Codes by W. Wesley Peterson (MIT Press and Wiley, 1961)
Handbook of Software & Hardware Interfacing for IBM PCs
Jefferey P. Royer
1987 by Prentice-Hall, Inc. (Osborne-McGraw-Hill)
Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632
ISBN 0-13-381831-4 hardware and expansion card design and interfacing
The C Programmer's Guide to NetBios, W. David Schwaderer, Howard W Sams &
Company, ISBN 0-672-22638-3 $24.95.
Computer Networks - Andrew S. Tanenbaum,Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-162959-X
Local Area Networks - Thomas W.Madron - Wiley, ISBN 0-471-85989-3
Netware APIs: There are many API packages available from Novell. Some of them:
Value-Added Process API $10.00 part number 420-10361-001
Netware Enhancements Package (security APIs, Queue Management, Accounting
Services) $15.00 part number 420-010316-110
Peer to Peer Comm. $15.00 part # 421-10070-001
Message Handling Service Interface $15.00 part # 420-10360-001
Novell API Reference Manual vols 1 & 2 $25.00 each part #s 452-760041-001
and 452-760042-001
C language Novell API Reference $250.00 part # 452-760043-001
Programmer's Guide $49.00 part # 420-000089-001
NetWare Technical Journal, 650 South Clark, Chicago, IL 60605-9960, pub. four
times a year for $50.00/yr.
SCSI specification: $25 from the American National Standards Institute,
1430 Broadway, New York, NY 10018, (212) 642-4900.
SCSI-2 X3T9.2 committee working documents, CAM committee documents, and the
most current draft of the SCSI-2 specification are available for downloading
from the SCSI BBS at (316) 636-8700 (300, 1200, or 2400 bps; 24 hours).
A paper copy of the SCSI-2 draft specification is available for $60 from
Global Engineering Documents 2805 McGaw Ave., Irvine, CA 92714,
(800) 854-7179 or (714) 261-1455.
SMB protocol (used by Microsoft in MS-Net and Lan Manager) "IBM Personal
Computer Seminar Proceedings", Volume 2, Number 8-1, G320-9310-00.
Security (DES, etc): NCSC's VENDOR'S GUIDE (dark green book [part of the
Rainbow series of books]). Write to: National Security Agency, ATTN: S613,
Ft. George Meade, MD 20755-6000, or call (301) 688-6581.
Programmer's Guide to PC & PS/2 Video Systems
Richard Wilton
Microsoft Press 1987
ISBN 1-55615-103-9
Logitech Mouse Tech. Ref. and Programmer's Guide v2.0, $25 (415)795-0801
