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

posted by andrewbird, Cornwall, UK, 25.11.2020, 01:01

> This could open up a really big can of worms. We owe a great debt to Ralf
> Brown (and all the others who helped him put the list together and maintain
> it). If it weren't for RBIL, DOS/FreeDOS would not be nearly as far along
> as it is. RBIL is the "Bible" that everybody uses to write their programs.
> It is BY FAR the most accurate and complete source of information there is
> even though it hasn't been updated in a VERY long time. There is even a
> LOT of information in there that people found by trial-and-error (bugs,
> secret/hidden functions, etc.) and not just reprints of the "official"
> documentation.
>
> The can of worms is going to be finding a person or group of people willing
> to maintain the data. That is a HUGE commitment. I would definitely like
> to see it happen, but the amount of work required to just gather the
> missing years of data is far more more than I think most people even
> realize. In addition to the few things you mentioned, there really needs
> to be information on all the technology changes and "standards" that have
> been developed over the last twenty years (CPUs, disks & disk formats,
> memory, BIOS & EFI & UEFI, virtualization, networking, etc.), just to name
> a few.
>
> If someone wants to take the lead on this, I'm sure many others would be
> willing to help, including me to at least a small extent. But I think this
> really needs to be almost a religious commitment on somebody's part (like
> it was for Ralf) and not just limited to a few items that one particular
> person would like to see.
I found what I think is a really nice way of representing register expectations and returns here [image]
Does anyone know if there's a generic term for these or software to produce them?

Thanks

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