The Undocumented PC

The Undocumented PC, 2nd Edition
By Frank van Gilluwe

The Undocumented PC is a book and companion diskette with extensive details into the heart of PC design. This comprehensive programmer's guide shows the innermost undocumented details of all PC systems, including the PC, AT, EISA, MCA, and PCI architectures. It also uncovers I/O functions, undocumented CPU instructions for the 8088 through the Pentium and later CPUs, BIOS operations, and important fixed memory areas. The Undocumented PC comes with a diskette full of useful programs and source code to explore and understand undocumented aspects of the PC. It also includes UNPC to help identify unused I/O ports, and to collect and summarize various reports from other programs supplied with the Undocumented PC.

1100+ pages. Published by Addison Wesley Publishing, Inc., Reading, MA, ©1997.
Available at better technical bookstores and most on-line bookstores.

More details at the Undocumented PC web site.

Abbreviated Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1 - Introduction
Chapter 2 - Exploring the Undocumented PC
Chapter 3 - The CPU and Undocumented Instructions
Chapter 4 - System and Equipment Detection
Chapter 5 - Adapter Card Development
Chapter 6 - BIOS Data and Other Fixed Data Areas
Chapter 7 - Interrupt Vector Table
Chapter 8 - The Keyboard System
Chapter 9 - Video System
Chapter 10 - Diskette System
Chapter 11 - Hard Disk System
Chapter 12 - Serial Ports
Chapter 13 - System Functions
Chapter 14 - Parallel Ports and Print Screen
Chapter 15 - CMOS Memory and Real-Time Clock
Chapter 16 - System Timers
Chapter 17 - Interrupt Control and NMI
Chapter 18 - DMA Services and DRAM Refresh
Appendix A - Programs on Disk
Appendix B - Glossary
Appendix C - Bibliography
Index

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