TY - BOOK AU - Royer,Jeffrey P. TI - Handbook of software and hardware interfacing for IBM PCs SN - 0133818497 AV - QA76.8.I2594 R69 1987 U1 - 004.165 19 PY - 1987/// CY - Englewood Cliffs, N.J. PB - Prentice-Hall KW - IBM Personal Computer KW - Computer software KW - Computer interfaces N1 - Cover title: Handbook of software & hardware interfacing for IBM PCs; Includes index; Introduction to interfacing -- Overview of the IBM PC hardware -- Overview of the operating system -- Introduction to the BIOS service -- Introduction to the DOS interrupts -- Introduction to diskettes -- Accessing disk files : part 1 -- Accessing disk files : part 2 -- Memory management and executive functions -- Installable device drivers -- IBM PC display adapters -- The IBM PC keyboard -- The CPU and the I/O channel -- Interfacing devices to the I/o channel -- Inserting wait states -- Direct memory access (DMA) -- Understanding and interfacing to the interrupt system -- The pedagogical board ER -