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"PC Interrupts", Ralf Brown/Jim Kyle, 1994, 0-201-62485-0, U$39.95/C$51.95
%A   Ralf Brown
%A   Jim Kyle
%C   1 Jacob Way, Reading, MA   01867-9984
%D   1994
%G   0-201-62485-0
%I   Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc.
%O   U$39.95/C$51.95 800-822-6339 617-944-3700 Fax: (617) 944-7273
%P   1210
%T   "PC Interrupts"
 
Ralf Brown's MS-DOS Interrupt List is an important resource.  For developers
trying to avoid interrupt conflicts with other software, it is essential.  For
students of DOS internals, it is mandatory.  For PC support staff, it is a
valuable guide in determining the cause of odd behaviour.  In the virus
research community, we are continually referring to it, and referring others to
it, to determine why a virus has hooked certain interrupts, and what it's going
to trigger on.  (Brown returns the compliment.  He gave us chapter thirty-four
in the original edition, and now chapter fifty-nine.  Many names in the
acknowledgements section are familiar as the more technical of the MS-DOS crowd
in antiviral research.)
 
The Interrupt List, itself, is widely available on the nets (under the filename
INTERrrx.ZIP, where rr is the version number and x is the "part").  Indeed, the
first book was based on release 26, from June of 1991 while this edition comes
from release 36, August, 1993.  Since you can get the file anyway, and a more
up to date version at that, why pay for the book?  There is an additional
validity to this in that, although there is an index to the volume, online
searching is handy.  However, an online reference is *not* always handy.  You
could print your own copy, but be warned, there are almost a thousand pages of
very fine print, here.
 
I'd get the book, and use the file for updates.
 
copyright Robert M. Slade, 1995   BKPCINTR.RVW   950311

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