interesting book

From: Lawrence LeMay <lemay_at_cs.umn.edu>
Date: Fri Jan 29 16:59:12 1999

Well well, people throw out the darndest things..

I found a copy of a book by someone named Peter Norton. Looks to me like it
may have been his first book. Called 'inside the IBM PC'.

His 2 test systems for developing the book were:

IBM/PC with 64K standard memory and 512K on a jumbo memory board that
he bought as a lark. The jumbo board is populated with 64K chips.
he mentions tha this board does provide astonishing improvement in
his Pascal programs.. (Duh!). Monochrome monitor.

Second system has a Amdek color II monitor, 128K of true blue IBM memory,
twin Tandon TM 100-2 diskette drives, and the standard color graphics
adapter.

Oh yeah, he mentions that he uses teh Jumbo card to simulate a 360K
virtual diskette drive ;)

He disassembles roms, disusses bios calls, and explains how the cassette
tape interface works, among other things. Personally, I think this
guy could go far...

-Lawrence LeMay
Received on Fri Jan 29 1999 - 16:59:12 GMT