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TITLE: | MS-DOS Made Simple |
Author(s): | Ian Sinclair |
ISBN: | 0-7506-2069-2 |
PUBLISHER: | Made Simple Books |
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Comments:
A must for the Windows point and click junky! You'd be surprised at
just how useful a bit of DOS know how is if you've never used it
before. OK this book doesn't go into fantastic detail but it's
enough to get you started (it's what I first learnt with).
It describes MS-DOS 6.22 which has a lot of extras which were cut
out from the version of DOS which comes with Windows 95 and 98,
chances are that when you find out about these you'll want them.
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TITLE: | Pocket PCRef |
Author(s): | Thomas J. Glover and Millie M. Young |
ISBN: | 1-885071-13-2 |
PUBLISHER: | Sequoia Publishing, Inc. |
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Comments:
As far as I'm concerned the most useful information contained in
this book is a list of many of the DOS commands and their usage
(although unfortunately it does leave out the undocumented switches),
very handy indeed. It also lists useful Windows 3.1 and 95 shortcut
keys.
Other data includes:
- ASCII codes.
- Keyboard scan codes.
- Pinouts: Printer Port; COM port; Video card; Keyboard, Mouse; USB and many more.
- PC memory map and hardware I/O map.
- A brief list of software interrupts.
- BIOS error codes (certain manufacturers only).
I have found this a very useful book.
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TITLE: | Peter Norton's Inside The PC Seventh Edition |
Author(s): | Peter Norton and John Goodman |
ISBN: | 0-672-31041-4 |
PUBLISHER: | Sams Publishing |
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Comments:
This book is a really great resource for learning about computers
in depth. It encourages the exploration of your system by using
software and also by nosing around inside the case. Be warned
this is definitely not a book for beginners! It's not really
something I'd want to read cover to cover, but it makes an
excellent reference book. Well worth getting in my view.
Note:
There is now an eighth edition, I've never seen it so I
can't comment on it. I believe that the new ISBN is 0672315327.
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