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From: jim@randvax.UUCP (Jim Gillogly)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: DOS 2.x question
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Date: Tue, 2-Jul-85 19:14:39 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul  2 19:14:39 1985
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Summary: Bradley's book explains DOS features

In article <776@vax2.fluke.UUCP> sota@fluke.UUCP (Bruce White) writes:
>Is there any authoritative reference book on DOS?

David J. Bradley's _Assembly Language Programming for the IBM Personal
Computer_, Prentice Hall 1984, has a lot of useful information.  It's not
primarily a DOS reference, but besides describing how to use the PC macro
assembler it has chapters on DOS functions including how to muck about
with FCB's, differences between .COM and .EXE, using the 8087, programming
the different adaptors (including graphics cards and diskette adaptor),
and the ROM BIOS.  There's also a section on the terminate and stay
resident stuff, including sample code.  For straight 8088 assembler hacking I
prefer Scanlon's book "IBM PC Assembly Language", but Bradley's book has
some instructive code segments.
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	Jim Gillogly
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