The Peter Norton Programmer's guide to the IBM PC
by Peter Norton · first published 1985
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The pink-shirt book is not the IBM Guide to PCs, but "The Peter Norton Programmer's Guide to the IBM PC". Incidentally, the blue-shirt book ("Peter Norton's DOS Guide") was the book that turned me into a computer nerd :)
on “The girl with the ANSI tattoo” ↗I remember renting "The Peter Norton Programmer's Guide to the IBM PC" to the local library. I was very impressed as a teen and I was using DEBUG to create programs under DOS 3.3, taking note of labels and addresses on a notebook until I switched to A86 assembler from Eric…
on “Compiling Word for Windows v1.1a” ↗…VGA, so dual-head systems were possible, eg, program display on the color display, debugger in the monochrome display. My go-to book for the internals, with all sorts of numbers like the above, was "The Peter Norton Programmer's guide to the IBM PC", available at https://archive.org/details/peternortonprogr00nort . For example, philipswood at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28053235 pointed out the IBM PC timer interrupt was 18.2 ticks per…
on “Ask HN: What numbers do you associate with old computers?” ↗“Complete Turbo Pascal” by Jeff Duntemann and “The Peter Norton Programmer's Guide to the IBM PC” blazed my trail into professional computing. Both are near-ideal models of nonfiction writing and teach a practical skill through the joy of discovery. No CS textbook I've read since can compare, though…
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