3 Laws of Modular Design for Assembler program These laws are summarized below. They aren’t really laws, they’re suggestions. But we’ll u e them throughout thi book. Define… Continue reading “3 Laws of Modular Design for Assembler program”…
Translating Programs To make any program, no matter what programming language it was written in, come alive, it has to be translated… Continue reading “Translating Programs”…
History and Concepts of the DOS The real history of our DOS begins with the early planning for the IBM Personal Computer and the operating system… Continue reading “History and Concepts of the DOS”…
How the BIOS ROM works Although the complete details of how the ROM-BIOS works are really only of concern to accomplished assembly language technicians, the… Continue reading “How the BIOS ROM works”…
The ideas behind the BIOS The ROM-BIOS has a clumsy name that only hints at what it’s all about: ROM-BIOS is short for Read-Only Memory… Continue reading “The ideas behind the BIOS”…
The 8086 PC Family One of the keys to understanding the PC family is understanding the microprocessor that acts as the working "brains" of… Continue reading “The 8086 PC Family”…
Some family history of IBM PC The public history of the PC began in August 1981, when IBM first announced "The IBM Personal Computer," what we… Continue reading “Some family history of IBM PC”…