Hi Bernhard,
Do you know the ISBN of the
- IBM AT Technical Reference?
Bye
Ehhrr ... don't think IBM did ISBN (at least _then_ they didn't) .... I ordered the book in 198? at the local IBM sales rep. at the time and paid dearly ($150-$200 range), but the book was fantastic (at the time). All electronics scematics, BIOS listing etc. even a complete 80286 instruction set reference included - everything I always wanted to know about the 'de facto industry standard' at the time ... Today you may be able to pick it up for $2,50 if you run into it on a computer 'antiques' sale but I think as a reference of the granddaddy of all modern PC-compatibles it's probably still worthwhile. Hey, who knows maybe you can even download it from IBM these days or order a (free?) CD with all their oldish references on it or so ... Intel data is available that way, why not Big Blue ??
Some names/numbers:
IBM Personal Computer Hardware Reference Library Technical Reference 6280070 Personal Computer AT S229-9611-00 6139362
It's one of the typical IBM cloth-covered-box-with-cloth-covered- binder with A5-ish size pages type of 'books'
If you can't find the book or if all you need is the keyboard controler explanation and init routines I can probably 'quote' you these for the sake of our technical discussion here ... just let me know.
Cheers
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