Inside the IBM PC

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Includes The PC, XT, AT and DOS 1.1 to 3.0!
"Ti^is is the beginning of a marvelous voyage of discovery, Into the secrets, ponders, and mysteries of the IBM Personal Computer and the family of ,;^omputers that has grown up around It "
fy With these words, Peter Norton welcomes you to
INSIDE THE IBM PC revised and enlarged
This best-seller has been thoroughly updated and expanded to include every model of the IBM microcomputer family! Detailed in content yet brisk in style, INSIDE THE IBM PC provides the fascinating tour inside your machine that only the renowned Peter Norton can give. With a contagious excitement, he'll lead you to a complete understanding of your IBM-knowing what it is, how it works, and what it can do. First review the fundamentals then move on to discover new ways to master the important facets of using your microcomputer to its fullest potential. Definitive in all respects, INSIDE THE IBM PC, REVISED AND ENLARGED includes:
• A detailed look at all of the... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Includes The PC, XT, AT and DOS 1.1 to 3.0!
"Ti^is is the beginning of a marvelous voyage of discovery, Into the secrets, ponders, and mysteries of the IBM Personal Computer and the family of ,;^omputers that has grown up around It "
fy With these words, Peter Norton welcomes you to
INSIDE THE IBM PC revised and enlarged
This best-seller has been thoroughly updated and expanded to include every model of the IBM microcomputer family! Detailed in content yet brisk in style, INSIDE THE IBM PC provides the fascinating tour inside your machine that only the renowned Peter Norton can give. With a contagious excitement, he'll lead you to a complete understanding of your IBM-knowing what it is, how it works, and what it can do. First review the fundamentals then move on to discover new ways to master the important facets of using your microcomputer to its fullest potential. Definitive in all respects, INSIDE THE IBM PC, REVISED AND ENLARGED includes:
• A detailed look at all of the special features of the IBM PC family—its clones and their compatability
• The fundamentals of the 8088 and 80286 microprocessors, plus the DOS operating system and BIOS
• Programming examples to show how each feature works, in BASIC, Pascal, and Assembly Language
• A discussion of how the assembler can be integrated into Pascal and BASIC for mere power
: • A look at how the Read Only Memory is allocated
A detailed view of disk data storage
V • A complete, easy-to-use glossary in narrative form
CONTENTS
Introduction / A Family Tree / Fundamentals: What A Computer Is / Data! / The PC Character Set / Hardware: The Parts Of The PCs / Brains: Our Microprocessors / The Memory Workbench / Disks: The Basic Story / Disks: The DOS Perspective / Disks: Deeper Details / Video: An On-Screen Overview / Video: Text Fundamentals / Video: Graphics Fundamentals / Keyboard Magic / Other Parts: Communication, Printers, And More / Built-in BIOS: The Basic Ideas / Built-in BIOS: Really Digging In / The Role Of DOS / DOS Serving Us / DOS Serving Our Programs / How Programs Are Built / Exploring And Tinkering / Appendix A: Program Listings / Appendix B: Narrative Glossary / Appendix C: Products and Trademarks / Appendix D: Other Sources Of Information / Index
Also Available
A Diskette to Accompany Inside Ttie IBIVI PC, Revised And Enlarged with more than 100 programs (including some of the famous "Norton Utilities" and copy protection schemes)! See Insert to order. Vissza