Ralf Brown's Interrupt List
Ralf Brown's Interrupt List or RBIL is a comprehensive list of interrupts, calls, hooks, interfaces, data structures, memory and port addresses, and processor opcodes for x86 computers of any age. It covers operating systems, drivers and application software, both documented and undocumented information, including bugs, shortcomings, and workarounds, with version and date information, often at a detail level not found in the contemporary literature. A large part of it covers system BIOSes and internals of operating systems such as DOS, OS/2, and Windows, as well as their interactions.
The project is the result of the research and collaborative effort of hundreds of contributors worldwide over many years, and it was maintained by Ralf Brown, a researcher at Carnegie Mellon University's Language Technologies Institute.[1]
It was a widely used resource by IBM PC system and application programmers in the pre-Windows era and has proven to be an important resource in developing FreeDOS.[2] Today it is still used as a reference to BIOS calls and to develop programs for DOS.
The list is currently at Revision 61 as of 17 July 2000, and is almost 8 MB in ASCII text.[3]
See also
References
- ^ Ralf Brown (2008-04-04). "Ralf Brown's Home Page". Retrieved 2011-10-14.
- ^ Jim Hall (2002-03-25). "The past, present, and future of the FreeDOS Project". Retrieved 2011-10-14.
- ^ Ralf Brown (2002-12-29). "The x86 Interrupt List". Retrieved 2011-10-14.
External List
- RBIL's Official Website
- HTML version of RBIL
- HTML version of RBIL (another version with perhaps better linking)
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