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Update of Ralf Brown's Interrupt List? (Developers)

posted by andrewbird, Cornwall, UK, 31.10.2020, 11:20

> As Japheth extended the syntax for call INT 15h/AX=87h it is needed to be
> well documented. The Bible for DOS programmers is the Ralf Brown's
> interrupt list. The current version was released in july/2000.
> At the present days we usually use the HTML version
> here.
>
> I am not sure who is the maintainer and whether is he active or not but
> this API extension should be tracked at least into this HTML version.
> And maybe it should be extended much more - for USB API from Bret Johnson's
> package and maybe many other things. (from hardware topics at least some
> basics of ACPI)

Interesting, I was thinking myself about some way of using RBIL programmatically, say as a tooltip in a debugger. Perhaps some easily maintainable intermediate format could be used both for that and to generate documentation? I wonder what the best format would be, XML?

Complete thread:

• Update of Ralf Brown's Interrupt List? - Laaca, 30.10.2020, 22:01
  • Update of Ralf Brown's Interrupt List? - RayeR, 31.10.2020, 01:33
    • Update of Ralf Brown's Interrupt List? - awik, 18.11.2020, 15:31
      • Update of Ralf Brown's Interrupt List? - Laaca, 18.11.2020, 19:17
      • Update of Ralf Brown's Interrupt List? - RayeR, 18.11.2020, 20:11
        • Update of Ralf Brown's Interrupt List? - awik, 19.11.2020, 07:26
          • Update of Ralf Brown's Interrupt List? - rr, 23.11.2020, 21:05
      • Update of Ralf Brown's Interrupt List? - tkchia, 08.05.2021, 10:51
        • Update of Ralf Brown's Interrupt List? - tom, 08.05.2021, 11:03
  • Update of Ralf Brown's Interrupt List? - DosWorld, 31.10.2020, 11:10
    • Update of Ralf Brown's Interrupt List? - marcov, 01.11.2020, 23:38
      • Update of Ralf Brown's Interrupt List? - tkchia, 03.11.2020, 11:36
        • Update of Ralf Brown's Interrupt List? - Laaca, 04.11.2020, 19:32
          • Update of Ralf Brown's Interrupt List? - Rugxulo, 06.11.2020, 03:36
            • Update of Ralf Brown's Interrupt List? - marcov, 06.11.2020, 09:48
              • Update of Ralf Brown's Interrupt List? - rr, 06.11.2020, 18:42
              • Update of Ralf Brown's Interrupt List? - Rugxulo, 08.11.2020, 17:40
    • Update of Ralf Brown's Interrupt List? - rr, 06.11.2020, 18:21
  • Update of Ralf Brown's Interrupt List? - andrewbird, 31.10.2020, 11:20
  • Update of Ralf Brown's Interrupt List? - bretjohn, 31.10.2020, 15:55
    • Update of Ralf Brown's Interrupt List? - RayeR, 01.11.2020, 22:52
    • Update of Ralf Brown's Interrupt List? - andrewbird, 25.11.2020, 01:01
      • Update of Ralf Brown's Interrupt List? - andrewbird, 25.11.2020, 01:03
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