This guide addresses key programming topics, including character devices, mass storage, memory management and process management. The reference section details each MS-DOS function call and interrupt and the BIOS interrupts. New and expanded material in this edition includes, system functions for all current versions of MS-DOS, ROM BIOS information for fixed disk, EGA, VGA, PC/AT and PS/2, version 4.0 of the Lotus/Intel/Microsoft expanded memory specification, writing "well-behaved" versus "hardware-dependent" applications, and compatibility considerations for OS/2.
- ISBN10 1556151578
- ISBN13 9781556151576
- Publish Date 1 November 1988 (first published 1 July 1986)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 5 November 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Microsoft Press,U.S.
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 686
- Language English