15 Mar
2006
15 Mar
'06
10:07 a.m.
At 04:31 PM 3/15/06 -0500, you wrote:
Joe R. wrote:
LOL! You know, I just found a 1st edition copy in my favorite surplus
store and to me it was a REAL find. I've sealed it up and carefully packed
it away with all of my other Version 1.0 software for my mint early PC.
Joe
I agree. Go find a copy of Inside the IBM PC
and the other books
(Assembly Language Programming??) by Peter Norton. They explain the
insides
of the PC very well.
Joe
Ya know, I found the Norton book to be really disjointed --
it didn't present the information in an A to Z sort of way.
IIRC he didn't write it but lent his name to a previously
published book ("Assembly Language Safari on the IBM PC" by
mumble and mumble). I'll check my copy tonight & verify that.
OTOH, "Inside the IBM PC" is a *really* valuable tool,
as well as a historical resource, and you'd have to pry my
first edition copy from my cold, dead hands ;-)
Glen
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