Mail Archives: opendos/1997/12/29/05:19:24
>What is INTER56? This may be a dumb question, but I really have no idea.
>It just seems odd that someone would post something without thinking
>that some people might need an explanation.
Hm, when I forwarded this mail I actually didn t thought that someone would need an
explanation, since it s not the first time, INTERxx was mentioned in this forum. However,
you re totally right, and I m sorry for any inconvenience.
Well, if you don t know INTERxx you probably don t need it. However, there is
always a first time for everything, and if you are a programmer, especially in a DOS/Windows/Networking environment, I recommend to have a deep look at
Ralf Brown s INTER56. No serious programmer can live without this list. It s the
larges database of PC interrupt usage in the world, and it s free. Some people just
call it "the list". Hundreds of people have contributed to this data base, which also
includes as much as is known on undocumented internals, bugs, and other specifics.
The interrupt list alone is more than 5MB in size, and it s accompanied with similar
lists for PC-ports and chipsets, memory layout listings, the CMOS contents, FARCALLS,
CPU opcodes and register usage, etc. Of course, the list also includes many internal
issues of DR DOS, Novell DOS, and OpenDOS, and much more is to come...
You can get INTER56 at the indicated places in the forwarded message, but probably
you ll soon get the latest version from other places/BBS too, since INTERxx is very
wide spread (xx is the version number, updated usually each quarter of a year).
Versions of the list converted to HTML, Windows .HLP etc. are also available at
different places, and even a printed version (of an older issue) exists in several
languages (including Chinese).
If you know of some details that are not yet included in INTERxx (or stated wrong there),
please forward the info to Ralf for inclusion in future issues of the project. At present he
is also searching for volunteers for various INTERxx-related tasks (for not-programmers)
on a not-for-profit basis.
Matthias
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Matthias Paul
eMail: <Matthias DOT Paul AT post DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
Web: http://www.rhrz.uni-bonn.de/~uzs180/mpdokeng.html
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