The New Peter Norton Programmer S Guide To The Ibm Pc Ps 2

A gold mine of insights, techniques and technical data, this guide includes information on the similarities and differences among IBM's five personal computers, plus tips for programming in assembly language, BASIC, C and Pascal. An Ingram computer book bestseller for over a year.

If you're an intermediate or advanced programmer, you know the value of developing programs for one IBM machine that will port to the others, even any future IBM machines. Peter Norton, creator of "Norton Utilities" give you the information you need to just this. Insights, techniques, technical data, quick reference charts enable you to look at the architectural similarities and differences among IBM's five personal computers. With this information, simple, clean, and portable professional and business programs are attainable.

This authoritative, critically acclaimed book--updated to include the new IBM PS/2 line--is a complete reference to the hardware, system software (includingOS/2), the ROM BIOS services, and the differences among the IBM family of microcomputers. A must-have for programmers and power users.

Completely rewritten and reorganized, this third edition of a classic bestseller provides complete reference coverage of industry standard hardware, operating systems, program development tools, and technical details. Update includes Win 3.1 and Win NT, the new IBM and AMD BIOS, MS-DOS 6.0, Intel P5, and much more.

Code Nation explores the rise of software development as a social, cultural, and technical phenomenon in American history. The movement germinated in government and university labs during the 1950s, gained momentum through corporate and counterculture experiments in the 1960s and 1970s, and became a broad-based computer literacy movement in the 1980s. As personal computing came to the fore, learning to program was transformed by a groundswell of popular enthusiasm, exciting new platforms, and an array of commercial practices that have been further amplified by distributed computing and the Internet. The resulting society can be depicted as a “Code Nation”—a globally-connected world that is saturated with computer technology and enchanted by software and its creation. Code Nation is a new history of personal computing that emphasizes the technical and business challenges that software developers faced when building applications for CP/M, MS-DOS, UNIX, Microsoft Windows, the Apple Macintosh, and other emerging platforms. It is a popular history of computing that explores the experiences of novice computer users, tinkerers, hackers, and power users, as well as the ideals and aspirations of leading computer scientists, engineers, educators, and entrepreneurs. Computer book and magazine publishers also played important, if overlooked, roles in the diffusion of new technical skills, and this book highlights their creative work and influence. Code Nation offers a “behind-the-scenes” look at application and operating-system programming practices, the diversity of historic computer languages, the rise of user communities, early attempts to market PC software, and the origins of “enterprise” computing systems. Code samples and over 80 historic photographs support the text. The book concludes with an assessment of contemporary efforts to teach computational thinking to young people.

"The Encyclopedia of Microcomputers serves as the ideal companion reference to the popular Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology. Now in its 10th year of publication, this timely reference work details the broad spectrum of microcomputer technology, including microcomputer history; explains and illustrates the use of microcomputers throughout academe, business, government, and society in general; and assesses the future impact of this rapidly changing technology."