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- Interrupt List
- Release 88.8 Last change 10/29/88
-
- Please distribute all of the following files together:
- INTERRUP.1ST this file
- INTERRUP.LST the actual list, ~155 pages at 60 lines per page
- INTERRUP.SUM a one-line-per-function summary, 15 pages
- INTERRUP.PRI a brief primer on interrupts
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- The newest release of this list is always available in two places:
-
- On FIDOnet, as file INTERnyy.ZOO on the Second Opinion 1:129/31 (412) 826-0822,
- where nyy stands for the nth release of year yy. File Requests 23 hrs.
- On the ARPAnet, by standard anonymous FTP from SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL as file
- PD1:<MSDOS.SYSUTL>INTERRUP.ARC. Note that you must use mode "tenex"
- or "type L 8" to successfully transfer the file.
-
- The list is also posted to USEnet in either comp.sys.ibm.pc or
- comp.binaries.ibm.pc several times per year, concurrent with a new release of
- the list. Since comp.binaries.ibm.pc is archived, you will be able to find a
- fairly recent release in the various UUCP archives.
- -----------------------------------------------------------
- This list is the result of the time and effort of a large number of people,
- among them
- 1/85 Janet Jack (original list)
- 1/85 J. Weaver Jr.
- 2/85 John Cooper
- 2/85 Skip Gilbrech
- Bob Jack
- 4/85 Jim Kyle
- 8/85 John Ruschmeyer <ihnp4!vax135!petsd!moncol!john>
- 8/85 Bill Frolik <ihnp4!hplabs!hp-pcd!bill>
- 8/85 Ross M. Greenberg <greenber%timeinc.uucp@brl.arpa>
-
- 87 Mike Morearty ...!ucbvax!cory!morearty \ early 1987
- Ed Nather ...!ut-sally!nather > several undocumented DOS
- Pete Holzmann {pyramid}!octopus!pete / calls in another list
-
- 87 Dan Lanciani ddl@harvard.harvard.edu various, incl. NetBIOS
- 7/87 Ralf Brown ralf@cs.cmu.edu INT 24h and DOS func 59h
- 10/87 Ralf Brown ralf@cs.cmu.edu list maintainer
- 11/87 Dan Davison dd@lanl.gov DOS 3.3 function calls
- 11/87 Bill White wwhite@teknowledge-vaxc.arpa DOS 3.3
- 11/87 Richard Hargrove harvard!killer!richardh EGA
- 12/87 Vincent Broman broman@bugs.nosc.mil Cordata BIOS/Minix
- 12/87 Dennis Grinberg grinberg@bimacs.bitnet MCGA/VGA
- 1/88 Brad Davis tektronix!sequent!gssc!bradd GSS, DGIS
- 2/88 D. Spinellis dds%cc.imperial.ac.uk Herc GRAFIX Dev Toolkit
- 3/88 Michael A. Moran Michael@cup.portal.com VGA INT 10h
- 3/88 Ralf Brown ralf@cs.cmu.edu DESQview API
- 4/88 Richard Marks rmarks@KSP.Unisys.COM undoc dir search fields
- 5/88 Robert Goldsmith rpg%security@mitre-bedford.arpa AT&T DEB adapter
- 7/88 Gary E. Miller Gary_Edmunds_Miller@cup.portal.com Paradise VGA
- 8/88 John Lefor jal@ee.rochester.edu XMS spec
- 9/88 Dan Lanciani ddl@harvard.harvard.edu miscellaneous
- 9/88 Howard Johnson Howard_Reed_Johnson@cup.portal.com NetWare overview
- 9/88 Finn Thoegerson via mcvax!daimi!fab 10-NET, miscellaneous
- 9/88 Michael Shiels mshiels@watmath.waterloo.edu FOSSIL spec
- 10/88 Michael Shiels mshiels@ziebmef.uucp ATI VIP INT 10h
- BMB Compuscience Canada Ltd.
- 10/88 Michael Shiels mshiels@ziebmef.uucp FTP Driver spec
- 10/88 Helmut Waelder ZRWA001@DTUZDV1.BITNET data structures, misc
- 10/88 Helmut Waelder ZRWA001@DTUZDV1.BITNET more 10-NET functions
- 10/88 Ge van Geldorp VLRUO02@HDETUD1.BITNET Novell NetWare
-
- Information on Tseng/Ahead/Paradise EGA video modes from a list posted by
- Dan Kegel 3/87.
-
- Information on the INT 10h functions supported by the EGA BIOS was derived
- from the article "Graphic Enhancement" found in the April 1985 _PC Tech
- Journal_, pages 58ff., and is marked with the string (EGA). jrh.
-
- Information on functions unique to the Portable PC and the Convertible was
- derived from a similar list compiled by David E. Powell, and added by
- Ralf Brown 11/14/87.
-
- Information on LIM EMS 3.2 functions was derived from _Advanced_MSDOS_, by
- Ray Duncan. Added by Ralf Brown 11/19/87.
-
- Information on LIM EMS 4.0 functions was derived from the transcription of
- the specification by Dick Flanagan. Added by Ralf Brown, 11/20/87
-
- Some of the information on MCGA/VGA BIOS calls was derived from _Byte_,
- Volume 12 Number 12.
-
- Various and sundry info on which machines support which calls was derived from
- the BIOS comparison in _Byte_, Volume 12 Number 12 and added by Ralf Brown,
- 1/4/88.
-
- COMPAQ DOS 3.31 INT 25/26 from a posting by John Lefor, 1/25/88.
-
- TopView INT 15/AH=12h info from macro definitions by Daniel T. Travison Jr.
- Added 3/4/88. Some additional TopView INT 15 info gleaned from "glue" routines
- by John Navas.
-
- Quarterdeck's flyer on its overpriced API specs and tools provided sufficient
- clues as to functionality to allow figuring out a large number of DESQview
- INT 15h calls.
-
- MS Mouse driver calls derived from PC Magazine, Vol 6 #13. Added 3/29/88.
-
- Non-video PS/2 BIOS calls derived from _IBM_ROM_BIOS_ by Ray Duncan.
- Added by Ralf Brown, 7/6/88.
-
- EEMS function calls derived from PC Tech Journal, May 1987. Added by Ralf
- Brown, 7/11/88.
-
- The list of functions used by Novell NetWare was taken from Novell's
- "NetWare Function Call Reference".
-
- PC Mouse information derived from the "PC Mouse Reference Manual version 4.00"
-
- 10-Net INT 6Fh information derived from "10-Net Reference Manual version 2.0"
-
- APPC/PC INT 68h information derived from "Advanced Program-to-Program
- Communication for the IBM Personal Computer, Programming Guide", second
- edition, Dec 1986.
-
- CDROM function call information derived from "Microsoft MS-DOS CD-ROM
- Extensions Function Requests", dated May 28, 1988. Added by Ralf Brown,
- 9/19/88.
-
- Novell NetWare function names from a 9/23/88 post by Marc Guyott
- <mguyott@mirror.TMC.COM>. Added 9/30/88.
-
- Miscellaneous data structures contributed by Helmut Waelder derived from
- descriptions in "MS-DOS Encyclopedia".
-
- Additional 10-Net INT 6F info from 10-Net version 3.3.10.
-
- Additional Novell NetWare info from "Advanced NetWare 2.0 Reference".
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- What they're saying about this list:
- "A cornucopia of descriptions of interrupt and function calls on the
- IBM PC. A great thing to have on your hard disk if you don't have
- a Ray Duncan or Peter Norton book handy."
- _Turbo_Technix_, July/August 1988, p. 157.
- [and that was about the 1/30/88 version, which is less than half the size of
- the current version....]
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- If you know of any information which is not in the list, or which is incorrect,
- please let me know! This list would be a pale shadow of its current self if it
- weren't for everybody's input.
-
- Ralf Brown
-
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