Abstract: A comprehensive, down-and-dirty book on the IBM PC architecture as viewed by low-level programmers.
Keywords: book review, programming, hardware, BIOS, I/O, memory, timers, clocks, CPU, interrupts, adapter card, video, keyboard, diskette, hard disk, serial port, parallel, CMOS, DMA, microcomputers, electronic data processing documentation.

Title: The Undocumented PC : A Programmer's Guide to I/O, CPUs, and Fixed Memory Areas, Second Edition
Author: Frank Van Gilluwe
Publisher: Addison Wesley Longman
Date Published: November 1996
ISBN: 0201479508
LOCN: QA76.5.V27 1997
Dewey: 004.165 20
Pages: 1123
Bibliography: 42
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Author:        Van Gilluwe, Frank.
Title:         The undocumented PC : a programmer's guide to
                  I/O, CPUs, and fixed memory areas / Frank van Gilluwe.
Edition:       2nd ed.
Published:     Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, c1997.
Description:   xii, 1123 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + 1 computer disk (3
                  1/2 in.)
LC Call No.:   QA76.5.V27 1997
Dewey No.:     004.165 20
ISBN:          0201479508
Notes:         System requirements for accompanying computer
                  disk: 1.4 MB disk drive.
               Includes bibliographical references (p.
                  1097-1102) and index.
Subjects:      Microcomputers.
               Electronic data processing documentation.
Control No.:   96033409 

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