From: thoth@uiuc.edu (Ben Cox) Subject: Re: [Q] good 386 programming book (protected mode, etc.) Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1993 08:40:15 GMT
torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds) writes:
>I've mentioned this book before, but it won't hurt to say so again: the
>book I swear by when it comes to 386 protected mode details is the
>"Programming the 80386" by John H Crawford and Patrik P Gelsinger (SYBEX
>books, ISBN 0-89588-381-3).
I once tried to order this book and the bookstore told me it was out
of print.
What I wound up getting instead was "i486 Programmer's Reference
Manual" by Intel. (Intel / Osborne McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0-07-8816754-2.)
It's a reference book, as the title suggests, does not presuppose DOS
or BIOS; just the CPU itself. There's a good section on how memory
mapping and protection works.