RBIL61 - Credits


This list is the result of the time and effort of a large number of people:

1/85 Janet Jack (original list)
1/85 J. Weaver JrIBM PCjr.
2/85 John Cooper
2/85 Skip Gilbrech
Bob Jack
4/85 Jim Kyle
8/85 John Ruschmeyer
8/85 Bill Frolik
8/85 Ross M. Greenberg

87 Mike Morearty \ early 1987
Ed Nather > several undocumentedInformation about a product which is not publicly available from the manufacturer, and must be determined by reverse-engineering (disassembly, trial-and-error, etc.). Undocumented information tends to change -- often dramatically -- between successive revisions of a product, since the manufacturer has no obligation to maintain compatibility in behavior which is not explicitly stated. DOS
Peter Holzmann / calls in another list

87 Dan Lanciani various, incl. NetBIOSOne of a number of low-level device-independent network interfaces; the other major interfaces are Novell's IPX and the Internet's IP (Internet Protocol, the lower-level portion of TCP/IP).
7/87 Ralf Brown INT 24h and DOS func 59h
10/87 Ralf Brown become list maintainer
11/87 Dan Davison DOS 3.3 function calls
11/87 Bill White DOS 3.3
11/87 Richard Hargrove harvard!killer!richardh EGAEnhanced Graphics Adapter(Enhanced Graphics Adapter) IBMInternational Busiuness Machines's second color video board for the IBMInternational Busiuness Machines PCIBM PC family, capable of a maximum resolution of 640x350 pixels in 16 simultaneous colors of a total of 64 possible colors.
12/87 Vincent Broman Cordata BIOS(Basic Input/Output System) A set of standardized calls giving low-level access to the hardware. The BIOS is the lowest software layer above the actual hardware and serves to insulate programs (and operating systems) which use it from the details of accessing the hardware directly./Minix
12/87 Dennis Grinberg MCGAMulti-Color Graphics Array(Multi-Color Graphics Array) The low-end color adapter offered in IBMInternational Busiuness Machines's early PS/2IBM PS/2, any model series machines./VGAVideo Graphics Array(Video Graphics Array) The video adapter introduced with the IBMInternational Busiuness Machines PS/2IBM PS/2, any model series of computers.
1/88 Brad Davis GSS, DGIS(Direct Graphics Interface Standard)
2/88 Diomidis Spinellis Herc GRAFIX Dev Toolkit
3/88 Michael A. Moran VGAVideo Graphics Array(Video Graphics Array) The video adapter introduced with the IBMInternational Busiuness Machines PS/2IBM PS/2, any model series of computers. INT 10h
3/88 Ralf Brown DESQview API(Application Program[ming] Interface) The defined set of calls which a program may make to interact with or request services of the operating system or environment under which it is running. Because the inputs and outputs of the calls are well-defined, a program using the API can continue using the identical calls even if the internal organization of the program providing the API changes.
4/88 Richard Marks undoc dir search fields
5/88 Robert Goldsmith AT&TAmerican Telephone and Telegraph DEB adapter
7/88 Gary E. Miller Paradise VGAVideo Graphics Array(Video Graphics Array) The video adapter introduced with the IBMInternational Busiuness Machines PS/2IBM PS/2, any model series of computers.
8/88 John Lefor XMSsee Extended Memory Specification spec
9/88 Dan Lanciani miscellaneous
9/88 Howard Johnson NetWare overview
9/88 Finn Thoegerson via 10-NET, miscellaneous
9/88 Michael Shiels FOSSIL(Fido/Opus/Seadog Standard Interface Layer) A standardized API for performing serial I/O, originally used by the Fido and Opus bulletin- board software and Seadog bulletin-board mailer, but now in wider use. spec
9/88 Ralf Brown Microsoft CD-ROM API(Application Program[ming] Interface) The defined set of calls which a program may make to interact with or request services of the operating system or environment under which it is running. Because the inputs and outputs of the calls are well-defined, a program using the API can continue using the identical calls even if the internal organization of the program providing the API changes.
10/88 Michael Shiels ATI VIP INT 10h
BMB Compuscience Canada Ltd.
10/88 Michael Shiels FTP(File Transfer Protocol) The standard protocol for copying files from one machine to another on a TCP/IP (Internet) network. Also the program of the same name with which a user may transfer files. Driver spec
10/88 Helmut Waelder data structures, misc
10/88 Helmut Waelder more 10-NET functions
10/88 Ge van Geldorp Novell NetWare
10/88 Ralf Brown INT 2F/AH=12h
11/88 Clarence A Dold Compaq386 speed settings
11/88 Ralf Brown TesSeRact API(Application Program[ming] Interface) The defined set of calls which a program may make to interact with or request services of the operating system or environment under which it is running. Because the inputs and outputs of the calls are well-defined, a program using the API can continue using the identical calls even if the internal organization of the program providing the API changes.
12/88 Ying-Kuen K. Hwang ESDI(Enhanced Small Device Interface) A disk drive interface type which was briefly popular before IDE took over. An ESDI drive can transfer data between the drive and controller at 10, 15, or 20 megabits per second, which is faster than an MFM or RLL controller but slower than what is possible with an IDE or SCSI drive. See also IDE. fixed disk calls
1/89 Ari Huttunen additional INT 33 calls
1/89 Duncan Murdoch undoc fields in DOS data
2/89 Ralf Brown VCPIsee Virtual Control Program Interface API(Application Program[ming] Interface) The defined set of calls which a program may make to interact with or request services of the operating system or environment under which it is running. Because the inputs and outputs of the calls are well-defined, a program using the API can continue using the identical calls even if the internal organization of the program providing the API changes.
3/89 Helmut Waelder more DOS 4.0 calls
4/89 Robert Seals ATI VGAVideo Graphics Array(Video Graphics Array) The video adapter introduced with the IBMInternational Busiuness Machines PS/2IBM PS/2, any model series of computers. Wonder modes
4/89 Ge van Geldorp pcANYWHERE III API(Application Program[ming] Interface) The defined set of calls which a program may make to interact with or request services of the operating system or environment under which it is running. Because the inputs and outputs of the calls are well-defined, a program using the API can continue using the identical calls even if the internal organization of the program providing the API changes.
4/89 Robin Walker undoc DOS 4 data struc
4/89 Robin Walker DOS 4.0 shell API(Application Program[ming] Interface) The defined set of calls which a program may make to interact with or request services of the operating system or environment under which it is running. Because the inputs and outputs of the calls are well-defined, a program using the API can continue using the identical calls even if the internal organization of the program providing the API changes.
4/89 Ralf Brown DCA/Intel CASsee Communicating Applications Specification API(Application Program[ming] Interface) The defined set of calls which a program may make to interact with or request services of the operating system or environment under which it is running. Because the inputs and outputs of the calls are well-defined, a program using the API can continue using the identical calls even if the internal organization of the program providing the API changes.
4/89 Ralf Brown Intel Image Proc Interf
5/89 Robin Walker multiplex int calls
6/89 Peter Sawatzki Video7 extended INT 10
7/89 Wes Cowley SHARE.EXE hooks
9/89 Robin Walker more DOS 4 data struc
9/89 Stuart R. Kemp Halo88
9/89 Urs Zurbuchen Btrieve API(Application Program[ming] Interface) The defined set of calls which a program may make to interact with or request services of the operating system or environment under which it is running. Because the inputs and outputs of the calls are well-defined, a program using the API can continue using the identical calls even if the internal organization of the program providing the API changes.
9/89 Dan Lanciani Z100, Taxan video BIOS(Basic Input/Output System) A set of standardized calls giving low-level access to the hardware. The BIOS is the lowest software layer above the actual hardware and serves to insulate programs (and operating systems) which use it from the details of accessing the hardware directly.
9/89 Robin Walker more DOS 4 data struc
10/89 Robin Walker DOS 3.0 data struc
10/89 John DesRosiers via Marc Bertrand 1:167/1 Ontrack INT 13 extensions
11/89 Ge van Geldorp master boot record
11/89 Barry Burke Banyan VINES
11/89 Christian Franke ATI EGAEnhanced Graphics Adapter(Enhanced Graphics Adapter) IBMInternational Busiuness Machines's second color video board for the IBMInternational Busiuness Machines PCIBM PC family, capable of a maximum resolution of 640x350 pixels in 16 simultaneous colors of a total of 64 possible colors. Wonder, WP5.0
1/90 Norman Walsh Inset API(Application Program[ming] Interface) The defined set of calls which a program may make to interact with or request services of the operating system or environment under which it is running. Because the inputs and outputs of the calls are well-defined, a program using the API can continue using the identical calls even if the internal organization of the program providing the API changes.
1/90 Andrew Schulman Phar Lap 386/DOS extender
1/90 Dan Prather IBMInternational Busiuness MachinesInternational Busiuness Machines) A hardware, software and other service technology company founded in 1911. 3270 Workst Prog API(Application Program[ming] Interface) The defined set of calls which a program may make to interact with or request services of the operating system or environment under which it is running. Because the inputs and outputs of the calls are well-defined, a program using the API can continue using the identical calls even if the internal organization of the program providing the API changes.
3/90 Roger Bowler rbowler@cix Fido 2:252/10 IBMInternational Busiuness MachinesInternational Busiuness Machines) A hardware, software and other service technology company founded in 1911. 3270, Amstrad PC1512
3/90 Mike Baszczak SQL(Structured Query Language) Base
4/90 Rick Wagner PCIBM PC Network RECEIVER.COM
4/90 Ralf Brown more DOS 3.3 internals
5/90 Mike Weaver 1:264/610 DESQview XDIsee External Device Interface
6/90 Les Moskowitz 1:261/1008 APL(A Programming Language) An interactive, mathematically- oriented language which is well-suited to manipulating matrices. Originally using greek letters and numerous special symbols, thus requiring a special display, versions are now available which use keywords in place of the special symbols.*PLUS/PCIBM PC
6/90 Ralf Brown more DOS 4.0 internals
6/90 Robin Walker BIOS(Basic Input/Output System) A set of standardized calls giving low-level access to the hardware. The BIOS is the lowest software layer above the actual hardware and serves to insulate programs (and operating systems) which use it from the details of accessing the hardware directly. data segment format
7/90 Andrew Schulman MSWindows INT 2F/AH=16h
7/90 Ben Myers Tseng ET4000, misc
7/90 Ralf Brown DPMIsee DOS Protected-Mode Interface 0.9 API(Application Program[ming] Interface) The defined set of calls which a program may make to interact with or request services of the operating system or environment under which it is running. Because the inputs and outputs of the calls are well-defined, a program using the API can continue using the identical calls even if the internal organization of the program providing the API changes.
8/90 G. Adam Stanislav 1:129/39 AVATAR(Advanced Video Attribute Terminal Assembler and Recreator) A set of control codes which may be used to affect the output of characters to the screen on systems equipped with an appropriate driver. Similar in intent to ANSI sequences, AVATAR has shorter command sequences and provides additional PC-specific functionality. AVATAR is primarily used by the Opus and Maximus bulletin board systems (it was designed by one of the developers of the Opus system)..SYS
8/90 Robin Walker more DOS internals
8/90 Michael A Shiels Quarterdeck INT 2F/AH=D2h
8/90 Michel Mathieu Logitech INT 33
8/90 Cornel Kaufmann Novell Netware shell 3.01
9/90 Michael A Shiels IBMInternational Busiuness MachinesInternational Busiuness Machines) A hardware, software and other service technology company founded in 1911./Yale & 3com INT 14
9/90 Michael A Shiels INT 6B, Starlan INT 2A/5B
9/90 Michael A Shiels DECnet INT 69/INT 6A
9/90 Michael A Shiels Topware NOS, Win3 EGAEnhanced Graphics Adapter(Enhanced Graphics Adapter) IBMInternational Busiuness Machines's second color video board for the IBMInternational Busiuness Machines PCIBM PC family, capable of a maximum resolution of 640x350 pixels in 16 simultaneous colors of a total of 64 possible colors..SYS
9/90 David Maxey misc undoc DOS
9/90 Roger Bowler Attachmate Extra API(Application Program[ming] Interface) The defined set of calls which a program may make to interact with or request services of the operating system or environment under which it is running. Because the inputs and outputs of the calls are well-defined, a program using the API can continue using the identical calls even if the internal organization of the program providing the API changes.
9/90 Ben Myers FRIEZE API(Application Program[ming] Interface) The defined set of calls which a program may make to interact with or request services of the operating system or environment under which it is running. Because the inputs and outputs of the calls are well-defined, a program using the API can continue using the identical calls even if the internal organization of the program providing the API changes.
9/90 Michael A Shiels VDSsee Virtual DMA Specification, Sangoma, misc
9/90 Rob Luursema EISA(Enhanced Industry-Standard Architecture) A 32-bit superset of the IBMInternational Busiuness Machines ATIBM PC AT's expansion bus (which is now known as the ISA or Industry-Standard Architecture bus). BIOS(Basic Input/Output System) A set of standardized calls giving low-level access to the hardware. The BIOS is the lowest software layer above the actual hardware and serves to insulate programs (and operating systems) which use it from the details of accessing the hardware directly. calls
10/90 Stephen Bean more DECnet INT 69/INT 6A
10/90 Maxime Dallaire 1:167/163 Carbon Copy Plus 5.0 API(Application Program[ming] Interface) The defined set of calls which a program may make to interact with or request services of the operating system or environment under which it is running. Because the inputs and outputs of the calls are well-defined, a program using the API can continue using the identical calls even if the internal organization of the program providing the API changes.
11/90 Dan Fandrich SCSI(Small Computer Systems Interface) A system-independent expansion bus typically used to connect hard disks, tape drives, and CD-ROMs to a computer. A host adapter connects the SCSI bus to the computer's own bus. See also ESDI, IDE. calls
1:153/511.1
11/90 Ben Myers Everex Viewpoint VGAVideo Graphics Array(Video Graphics Array) The video adapter introduced with the IBMInternational Busiuness Machines PS/2IBM PS/2, any model series of computers.
11/90 Michael A Shiels AppleTalk/IBM802.2 INT 5C
11/90 Mark Livingstone TVGA video modes
11/90 Michael A Shiels LPTx, X00 calls
12/90 Michael A Shiels Compaq BIOS(Basic Input/Output System) A set of standardized calls giving low-level access to the hardware. The BIOS is the lowest software layer above the actual hardware and serves to insulate programs (and operating systems) which use it from the details of accessing the hardware directly., Ad Lib
12/90 Michael A Shiels PCSpool,Disk Spool II
12/90 Michael A Shiels OmniView, misc
12/90 Michael A Shiels Cswitch, HIGHUMM.SYS,misc
1/91 Michael A Shiels Back&Forth 1.62,DoubleDOS
1/91 Bernd Schemmer (Dortmund, Germany) MDEBUG API(Application Program[ming] Interface) The defined set of calls which a program may make to interact with or request services of the operating system or environment under which it is running. Because the inputs and outputs of the calls are well-defined, a program using the API can continue using the identical calls even if the internal organization of the program providing the API changes.
1/91 Michael A Shiels more AppleTalk, misc
1/91 Michael A Shiels DPMIsee DOS Protected-Mode Interface 1.0 func names
2/91 Michael A Shiels miscellaneous
3/91 Jan-Pascal van Best NetWare IPX(Internetwork Packet Exchange) A low-level layer of Novell's NetWare networking software./SPX INT 7A
3/91 Jeroen Pluimers TBSCANX
3/91 Ralf Brown PCIBM PC Tools API(Application Program[ming] Interface) The defined set of calls which a program may make to interact with or request services of the operating system or environment under which it is running. Because the inputs and outputs of the calls are well-defined, a program using the API can continue using the identical calls even if the internal organization of the program providing the API changes.
4/91 David H. Bennett ELRES API(Application Program[ming] Interface) The defined set of calls which a program may make to interact with or request services of the operating system or environment under which it is running. Because the inputs and outputs of the calls are well-defined, a program using the API can continue using the identical calls even if the internal organization of the program providing the API changes.
4/91 Michael A Shiels Interconnections Inc. TES
4/91 Manfred Young fyoung @ BIX DOS, LANstep, misc
4/91 Fridrik Skulason virusA program which attaches itself to other programs for the purpose of duplicating itself. Viruses often (but not always) contain harmful code which is triggered by some event, after a certain number of reproductions, or on a specific date. See also worm. installation checks
4/91 Joseph G. Souza 1:322/327 Alloy ANSK, NTNX, MW386
4/91 Frank Gladu Alloy ANSK, NTNX, MW386
4/91 Tamura Jones 2:512/36.7 Win3 DOSX, Soundblaster
4/91 Michael D Shride UltraVision
4/91 Michael A Shiels DR Multiuser DOS 5.0
5/91 Michael A Shiels Northnet Jetstream, misc
5/91 Duncan Murdoch New Executable header
5/91 Andrew Schulman SMARTDRV.SYS
5/91 Tamura Jones 2:512/36.7 RESPLAY
5/91 Michael A Shiels LAN Manager DOS,INT 24
6/91 Herwig Feichtinger Shamrock EMAIL, NET.24
6/91 Robin Walker DOS 5.0 internals
6/91 Todor Todorov 2:359/105 misc DOS-related
6/91 Ross Wentworth 1:102/330.2 Turbo Pascal popup lib
6/91 Everett Kaser HP 95LX
7/91 Michael A Shiels Digiboard DigiCHANNEL
7/91 Rickard Faith Stacker
7/91 Wolfgang Lierz Norton Utilities 5.0
8/91 Michael A Shiels NPC NCSI, KBUF, Telebit
9/91 Ralf Brown QEMM API(Application Program[ming] Interface) The defined set of calls which a program may make to interact with or request services of the operating system or environment under which it is running. Because the inputs and outputs of the calls are well-defined, a program using the API can continue using the identical calls even if the internal organization of the program providing the API changes.
9/91 Holger Veit Optima 1024 VGAVideo Graphics Array(Video Graphics Array) The video adapter introduced with the IBMInternational Busiuness Machines PS/2IBM PS/2, any model series of computers. zoom
9/91 Gary E. Miller Rabbit LLAPI
10/91 Michael A Shiels FTP(File Transfer Protocol) The standard protocol for copying files from one machine to another on a TCP/IP (Internet) network. Also the program of the same name with which a user may transfer files. Packet DriverAny one of the numerous drivers conforming to FTP Software's Packet Driver Specification, which provides a hardware-independent network interface. See also NDIS, ODI. 1.10
10/91 Marcus Groeber 2:241/5609.1 DR DOS
11/91 Fridrik Skulason more virusA program which attaches itself to other programs for the purpose of duplicating itself. Viruses often (but not always) contain harmful code which is triggered by some event, after a certain number of reproductions, or on a specific date. See also worm. install checks
11/91 Christopher J Ambler FSBBS 2.0
12/91 Robin Walker new PS/2IBM PS/2, any model keyboard funcs
1/92 Krzysztof Halasa EMM386 executable header
1/92 Michael A Shiels pcAnywhere IV/LAN, misc
1/92 Michael A Shiels ISOLAN Multi-Protoc Sftwr
1/92 Michael A Shiels PCW Weather Card, FaxBIOS
1/92 Jan-Pieter Cornet DR-DOS CDSsee Current Directory Structure & misc
1/92 Frank Vorstenbosch Kingswood TSR(Terminate and Stay Resident) A program which remains in memory after terminating in order to provide services to other programs or the user. The name comes from the name of the DOS function call used to remain in memory after termination. API(Application Program[ming] Interface) The defined set of calls which a program may make to interact with or request services of the operating system or environment under which it is running. Because the inputs and outputs of the calls are well-defined, a program using the API can continue using the identical calls even if the internal organization of the program providing the API changes.
1/92 Jacob Rieper DR DOS 6.0 TaskMAX
1/92 Fridrik Skulason more viruses, std names
1/92 Tim Farley Microsoft EMM386.EXE
1/92 Alexi Lookin NetWare TBMI 2.0
1/92 Ralf Brown more QEMM API(Application Program[ming] Interface) The defined set of calls which a program may make to interact with or request services of the operating system or environment under which it is running. Because the inputs and outputs of the calls are well-defined, a program using the API can continue using the identical calls even if the internal organization of the program providing the API changes.
1/92 Tim Farley more PSIBM PS/2, any model/x model IDs
1/92 Kevin Gillett 1:153/101 SOLLEX SuperVGA extnsions
1/92 Michael A Shiels B.Antoine ST-01 SCSI(Small Computer Systems Interface) A system-independent expansion bus typically used to connect hard disks, tape drives, and CD-ROMs to a computer. A host adapter connects the SCSI bus to the computer's own bus. See also ESDI, IDE..SYS
1/92 Michael A Shiels ASPI,ASPITAPE,Canon SI3
1/92 Michael A Shiels Win3 INT 2F/40, misc
2/92 Michael A Shiels miscellany
2/92 Dan Bodoh DVSIXDI
2/92 Gary E. Miller more Btrieve API(Application Program[ming] Interface) The defined set of calls which a program may make to interact with or request services of the operating system or environment under which it is running. Because the inputs and outputs of the calls are well-defined, a program using the API can continue using the identical calls even if the internal organization of the program providing the API changes.
2/92 Ralf Brown TKERNEL private API(Application Program[ming] Interface) The defined set of calls which a program may make to interact with or request services of the operating system or environment under which it is running. Because the inputs and outputs of the calls are well-defined, a program using the API can continue using the identical calls even if the internal organization of the program providing the API changes.
2/92 Ralf Brown PCIBM PC Paint Plus 2.0
2/92 Tamura Jones 2:512/36.7 Windows3 VTD.386, misc
3/92 Frank Vorstenbosch more Kingswood API(Application Program[ming] Interface) The defined set of calls which a program may make to interact with or request services of the operating system or environment under which it is running. Because the inputs and outputs of the calls are well-defined, a program using the API can continue using the identical calls even if the internal organization of the program providing the API changes.
3/92 Michael A Shiels MBBIOS
3/92 Ralf Brown DPMILOAD API(Application Program[ming] Interface) The defined set of calls which a program may make to interact with or request services of the operating system or environment under which it is running. Because the inputs and outputs of the calls are well-defined, a program using the API can continue using the identical calls even if the internal organization of the program providing the API changes.
3/92 Joseph Gil HP 95LX
3/92 Ralf Brown 386MAX 6.0 API(Application Program[ming] Interface) The defined set of calls which a program may make to interact with or request services of the operating system or environment under which it is running. Because the inputs and outputs of the calls are well-defined, a program using the API can continue using the identical calls even if the internal organization of the program providing the API changes.
3/92 Fyodor Evseev AutoCAD Digitizer ADI
3/92 Tim Farley Advanced Power Management
4/92 Tamura Jones 2:512/36.7 PGS1600.DEV
4/92 Andrew Rossmann SMARTDRV v4.00, QEMM
4/92 Tamura Jones 2:512/36.7 METZTSR.COM
4/92 Tamura Jones 2:512/36.7 Vanderaart txtwin,DR MDOS
4/92 Dan Bodoh DESQview/X .DVP file
5/92 William Peavy Borland FP shortcuts
5/92 Ralf Brown FGDRIVER v1.10
5/92 Tim Farley Vedit VSWAP, NG.EXE
6/92 Dan Fandrich BitFax scheduler
6/92 Tamura Jones 2:512/36.7 more New EXE, AD-DOS.COM
6/92 Tim Farley LANtastic v4.1
6/92 Francis Turner AX (Japanese ATIBM PC AT) calls
6/92 John Fa'atuai DR Multiuser DOS
6/92 Andy Hakim Smooth Mouse Driver
7/92 Michael A Shiels License Server API(Application Program[ming] Interface) The defined set of calls which a program may make to interact with or request services of the operating system or environment under which it is running. Because the inputs and outputs of the calls are well-defined, a program using the API can continue using the identical calls even if the internal organization of the program providing the API changes.,misc
7/92 Tim Farley Novell Netware shell
7/92 Carlos M. de Sousa Antunes MS Mouse driver
7/92 Ralf Brown DESQview/X socket API(Application Program[ming] Interface) The defined set of calls which a program may make to interact with or request services of the operating system or environment under which it is running. Because the inputs and outputs of the calls are well-defined, a program using the API can continue using the identical calls even if the internal organization of the program providing the API changes.
8/92 Jacob Rieper SETDRVER, more DR DOS
8/92 Richard A Plinston Auckland, New Zealand Europ.DOS4.0,DR DOS Plus
8/92 Richard A Plinston Auckland, New Zealand Acorn BBC Master 512
8/92 Serge Pachkovsky PC-MOS/386 v3.0
8/92 Aki Korhonen Seagate disk BIOS(Basic Input/Output System) A set of standardized calls giving low-level access to the hardware. The BIOS is the lowest software layer above the actual hardware and serves to insulate programs (and operating systems) which use it from the details of accessing the hardware directly.
8/92 Chris Hall misc
8/92 Michael A Shiels MTEZ XpressFax
8/92 Tamura Jones 2:512/36.7 Control Hostess i/ISA(Industry-Standard Architecture) The expansion bus used by the IBMInternational Busiuness Machines PCIBM PC/ATIBM PC AT. See also EISA.
8/92 Patrick Ibbetson NEL Electronics BIOS(Basic Input/Output System) A set of standardized calls giving low-level access to the hardware. The BIOS is the lowest software layer above the actual hardware and serves to insulate programs (and operating systems) which use it from the details of accessing the hardware directly.
9/92 Patrick Ibbetson SCREENR, Cirrus chipsets
9/92 Tamura Jones 2:512/36.7 FlashTek X-32VM
9/92 Ben Myers more NCR 77C22 chip modes
9/92 Dan Fandrich more Future Domain SCSI(Small Computer Systems Interface) A system-independent expansion bus typically used to connect hard disks, tape drives, and CD-ROMs to a computer. A host adapter connects the SCSI bus to the computer's own bus. See also ESDI, IDE.
9/92 Michael A Shiels PCIBM PC/TCP(Transmission Control Protocol) A higher level (session layer) of the TCP/IP protocol suite. See also IP, TCP/IP. syscall names
9/92 A. Peter Blicher Oakland, CA Genoa Super EGAEnhanced Graphics Adapter(Enhanced Graphics Adapter) IBMInternational Busiuness Machines's second color video board for the IBMInternational Busiuness Machines PCIBM PC family, capable of a maximum resolution of 640x350 pixels in 16 simultaneous colors of a total of 64 possible colors.
9/92 Tim Farley misc
9/92 Riku Meskanen ArtiCom
10/92 Jack Ridgway 1:3632/4.13 VMiX API(Application Program[ming] Interface) The defined set of calls which a program may make to interact with or request services of the operating system or environment under which it is running. Because the inputs and outputs of the calls are well-defined, a program using the API can continue using the identical calls even if the internal organization of the program providing the API changes.
10/92 Tim Farley misc
10/92 Alexi Lookin more NetWare, VIDRAM
10/92 Harry Sumar Linear Executable
10/92 Tim Farley XGA(Extended Graphics Array)
11/92 Michael A Shiels Columbia Data Prod SDLP
12/92 Igor Sysoev HIMEM.SYS v2.77
12/92 Aaron Emigh After Dark API(Application Program[ming] Interface) The defined set of calls which a program may make to interact with or request services of the operating system or environment under which it is running. Because the inputs and outputs of the calls are well-defined, a program using the API can continue using the identical calls even if the internal organization of the program providing the API changes. correctns
12/92 Tim Farley SilverNET,DECnet,NetWare4
12/92 Bent Lynggaard misc video
12/92 Kyle Rogers DOS LAN Requester
12/92 Gary E. Miller WD90C video chipset
1/93 Frank Klemm Diamond Speedstar 24X
2/93 Geoff Chappell cix.compulink.co.uk!geoffc var. undoc DOS behavior
2/93 Dr. David Bailey Salford, England DBOS API(Application Program[ming] Interface) The defined set of calls which a program may make to interact with or request services of the operating system or environment under which it is running. Because the inputs and outputs of the calls are well-defined, a program using the API can continue using the identical calls even if the internal organization of the program providing the API changes.
2/93 Tim Farley more Novell LSL API(Application Program[ming] Interface) The defined set of calls which a program may make to interact with or request services of the operating system or environment under which it is running. Because the inputs and outputs of the calls are well-defined, a program using the API can continue using the identical calls even if the internal organization of the program providing the API changes.
3/93 Rainer Schuetze 2:2402/330 dLite API(Application Program[ming] Interface) The defined set of calls which a program may make to interact with or request services of the operating system or environment under which it is running. Because the inputs and outputs of the calls are well-defined, a program using the API can continue using the identical calls even if the internal organization of the program providing the API changes.
3/93 Michael A Shiels LAN Manager Enhanced DOS
3/93 A Padgett Peterson ROM(Read-Only Memory) A memory for program storage which may not be changed by the program as it runs. debugger
3/93 Ian Oliver SCSILink API(Application Program[ming] Interface) The defined set of calls which a program may make to interact with or request services of the operating system or environment under which it is running. Because the inputs and outputs of the calls are well-defined, a program using the API can continue using the identical calls even if the internal organization of the program providing the API changes.
3/93 Richard Talon XVIEW hypertext viewer
3/93 Tamura Jones 2:512/36.7 IBMSND driver
3/93 Grant Echols undoc Novell NetWare
3/93 George L. Fulk OS/2 2.x VDMs, FAPI
3/93 Andrew Schulman Novell DPMSsee DOS Protected-Mode Services
3/93 Dan Fandrich ubc-cs!merlin!fch!dan more Future Domain SCSI(Small Computer Systems Interface) A system-independent expansion bus typically used to connect hard disks, tape drives, and CD-ROMs to a computer. A host adapter connects the SCSI bus to the computer's own bus. See also ESDI, IDE.
3/93 Konstantin Kisurin more 386MAX
4/93 Arne Schäpers DR DOS details
4/93 Geoff Chappell cix.compulink.co.uk!geoffc DOS4 ExtAttrib support
4/93 Morten Welinder miscellaneous
4/93 Tim Farley PS/2IBM PS/2, any model INT 15,INT 16
4/93 Xavier Caballe TFPCX driver interface
4/93 Michael A Shiels more OS/2 Family API(Application Program[ming] Interface) The defined set of calls which a program may make to interact with or request services of the operating system or environment under which it is running. Because the inputs and outputs of the calls are well-defined, a program using the API can continue using the identical calls even if the internal organization of the program providing the API changes.
4/93 Chris Dunford Cove Software programs
5/93 Dmitry Stefankov more DOS 3 SDAsee Swappable Data Area fields
5/93 Stephan Wolf SK-UPPS DLI API(Application Program[ming] Interface) The defined set of calls which a program may make to interact with or request services of the operating system or environment under which it is running. Because the inputs and outputs of the calls are well-defined, a program using the API can continue using the identical calls even if the internal organization of the program providing the API changes.
5/93 Dmitry Stefankov Soft-ICE v2.5x
5/93 Mikael Rydberg Sweden Cirrus/UM587/etc vidmodes
5/93 Michael A Shiels more BAPI,Frieze,ANSIPLUS
5/93 Steve Bromwich MediaVision MVSOUND.SYS
6/93 Roeland Jansen 2:512/153.1 more PC-MOS/386 API(Application Program[ming] Interface) The defined set of calls which a program may make to interact with or request services of the operating system or environment under which it is running. Because the inputs and outputs of the calls are well-defined, a program using the API can continue using the identical calls even if the internal organization of the program providing the API changes.
6/93 Ralf Brown FAST! v5 API(Application Program[ming] Interface) The defined set of calls which a program may make to interact with or request services of the operating system or environment under which it is running. Because the inputs and outputs of the calls are well-defined, a program using the API can continue using the identical calls even if the internal organization of the program providing the API changes.
6/93 Ralf Brown CEMM v5.10,v5.11
6/93 Jens Vollmar Erlangen, Germany Trident/C&T video, misc
6/93 Victor Forsyuk MX5 Extended FOSSIL(Fido/Opus/Seadog Standard Interface Layer) A standardized API for performing serial I/O, originally used by the Fido and Opus bulletin- board software and Seadog bulletin-board mailer, but now in wider use.
6/93 Michael A Shiels Blank-It, TSRCOMM
6/93 Michael A Shiels VxDA virtual device driver for Windows 3.x or 95. So called because nearly all of the Windows 3.0 drivers had names of the form "VdeviceD". See also device driver., Al William's WINX
6/93 Mark Aitchison ScanBoot, partition types
6/93 Warner Young Net-Source, Santa Clara, CA SilverNET, misc DOS int.
7/93 Wim Osterholt 2:512/56 PORTS.LST
7/93 Aki Korhonen Cirrus Logic BIOS(Basic Input/Output System) A set of standardized calls giving low-level access to the hardware. The BIOS is the lowest software layer above the actual hardware and serves to insulate programs (and operating systems) which use it from the details of accessing the hardware directly.
7/93 Alexi Lookin Realtek RTVGA
7/93 Alexi Lookin Phar Lap .EXP headers
7/93 Jean-Francois Larvoire HP HIL Vectra BIOS(Basic Input/Output System) A set of standardized calls giving low-level access to the hardware. The BIOS is the lowest software layer above the actual hardware and serves to insulate programs (and operating systems) which use it from the details of accessing the hardware directly.
7/93 Ralf Brown 386MAX v7.00/QEMM v7.01
7/93 Joe Souza Webcorp, Sausalito, CA WEB API(Application Program[ming] Interface) The defined set of calls which a program may make to interact with or request services of the operating system or environment under which it is running. Because the inputs and outputs of the calls are well-defined, a program using the API can continue using the identical calls even if the internal organization of the program providing the API changes.
7/93 Michael Hung PharLap 386/DOSX
8/93 John Howells EMSsee Expanded Memory Specification,XMSsee Extended Memory Specification,VCPIsee Virtual Control Program Interface,DPMIsee DOS Protected-Mode Interface bugs
8/93 Tim Farley PCMCIA Socket Services
8/93 Dan Bodoh DESQview internal data
9/93 Gary E. Miller Diamond Stealth 24X
9/93 Frank Vorstenbosch more Kingswood API(Application Program[ming] Interface) The defined set of calls which a program may make to interact with or request services of the operating system or environment under which it is running. Because the inputs and outputs of the calls are well-defined, a program using the API can continue using the identical calls even if the internal organization of the program providing the API changes., misc
9/93 Phil Rea TopWare Network OS
9/93 Andreas Westfeld Olivetti Quaderno
9/93 Alexi Lookin Avance Logic, C&T video
9/93 Inbar Raz 2:403:302.42 Juko UNIQUE UX, misc
9/93 Gary E. Miller Phar Lap 386|DOS-Ext.
10/93 Ralf Brown Compaq ROMs
10/93 Paolo Borsalino VSAFE
10/93 Marco Savegnago MBBIOS updates, G8BPQ
11/93 Wim Osterholt 2:512/56 Cirrus Logic BIOS(Basic Input/Output System) A set of standardized calls giving low-level access to the hardware. The BIOS is the lowest software layer above the actual hardware and serves to insulate programs (and operating systems) which use it from the details of accessing the hardware directly. 3.02
11/93 Dmitry S. Kohmanyuk CS_TSR specification
12/93 Alex Novgorodcev AutoCAD Dev Interface
12/93 Christian Kaiser Windows debugging kernel
12/93 Colin Buckley UNCHAIN
12/93 Jeffrey L. Hayes Tandy BIOS(Basic Input/Output System) A set of standardized calls giving low-level access to the hardware. The BIOS is the lowest software layer above the actual hardware and serves to insulate programs (and operating systems) which use it from the details of accessing the hardware directly. calls
12/93 Finn Thoegersen via VESA(Video Electronics Standards Association) An industry group which sets both hardware and software standards and recommendations. The term VESA is also used to denote compliance with the VESA SuperVGA BIOS Extensions, a standard set of video BIOS functions for accessing video modes of higher resolution than those defined by IBMInternational Busiuness Machines. XGA(Extended Graphics Array) BIOS(Basic Input/Output System) A set of standardized calls giving low-level access to the hardware. The BIOS is the lowest software layer above the actual hardware and serves to insulate programs (and operating systems) which use it from the details of accessing the hardware directly. Extensions
1/94 David A. Mair NASI INT 6B calls
1/94 Bill Hawkins Adv. Par. Port DAISY.SYS
1/94 Inbar Raz 2:403:302.42 VGARAM,HelpTSR,Lightning
1/94 James E Beersman HP and Compaq info
2/94 Peter van den Boogert ZFAX v2.x, v3.01
2/94 Jesper Rene Frandsen VESA(Video Electronics Standards Association) An industry group which sets both hardware and software standards and recommendations. The term VESA is also used to denote compliance with the VESA SuperVGA BIOS Extensions, a standard set of video BIOS functions for accessing video modes of higher resolution than those defined by IBMInternational Busiuness Machines. XGA(Extended Graphics Array) BIOS(Basic Input/Output System) A set of standardized calls giving low-level access to the hardware. The BIOS is the lowest software layer above the actual hardware and serves to insulate programs (and operating systems) which use it from the details of accessing the hardware directly.,misc video
2/94 Jesper Rene Frandsen Husky Hunter 16 BIOS(Basic Input/Output System) A set of standardized calls giving low-level access to the hardware. The BIOS is the lowest software layer above the actual hardware and serves to insulate programs (and operating systems) which use it from the details of accessing the hardware directly.
2/94 Ciriaco García de Celis CiriSoft, 2M
2/94 Wolfgang Lierz Norton Utils v7, misc
2/94 Menno Pieters DimVGA
3/94 Markus Lomb bitFOSS,bitFOSSI,WDTSR
3/94 taQ Okazaki Windows Global EMM Import
3/94 Wolfgang Lierz PCMCIA, Award PCDISK.EXE
3/94 Clinton Warren Novell XQL
3/94 Reidar Gresseth Explosiv API(Application Program[ming] Interface) The defined set of calls which a program may make to interact with or request services of the operating system or environment under which it is running. Because the inputs and outputs of the calls are well-defined, a program using the API can continue using the identical calls even if the internal organization of the program providing the API changes.
4/94 Uwe Zimmermann Adv.Power Management v1.1
4/94 Thomas Brugger NetWare VLMs & more
5/94 Wolfgang Lierz Toshiba laptops,misc
5/94 Jan Beulich DPMSsee DOS Protected-Mode Services v1.0
5/94 Ralf Brown Novell DOS 7 EMM386.EXE
5/94 Frank Kintrup FK TSR(Terminate and Stay Resident) A program which remains in memory after terminating in order to provide services to other programs or the user. The name comes from the name of the DOS function call used to remain in memory after termination. Utils, misc OS/2
5/94 Christian Franke redirector, Win3
5/94 Peter Claus Gutmann SFS (Secure FileSystem)
5/94 Wilbert van Leijen ODIHLP, misc
6/94 Wolfgang Spraul Seagate ST01/ST02 BIOS(Basic Input/Output System) A set of standardized calls giving low-level access to the hardware. The BIOS is the lowest software layer above the actual hardware and serves to insulate programs (and operating systems) which use it from the details of accessing the hardware directly.
6/94 Wolfgang Spraul SyQuest BIOS(Basic Input/Output System) A set of standardized calls giving low-level access to the hardware. The BIOS is the lowest software layer above the actual hardware and serves to insulate programs (and operating systems) which use it from the details of accessing the hardware directly.
7/94 !!! Compaq QVision
7/94 Dmitry S. Kohmanyuk JAM compressor
7/94 Thomas Brugger more miscellany
7/94 Mark T. Vitt SDAsee Swappable Data Area/DTAsee Disk Transfer Address interaction, misc
8/94 Jean F. Larvoire HP Ext. BIOS(Basic Input/Output System) A set of standardized calls giving low-level access to the hardware. The BIOS is the lowest software layer above the actual hardware and serves to insulate programs (and operating systems) which use it from the details of accessing the hardware directly., misc
8/94 Matthias Paul K3PLUS API(Application Program[ming] Interface) The defined set of calls which a program may make to interact with or request services of the operating system or environment under which it is running. Because the inputs and outputs of the calls are well-defined, a program using the API can continue using the identical calls even if the internal organization of the program providing the API changes.
8/94 George A. Reznik LZSAPI (Stacker 4)
8/94 Kristofer Sweger ANSIPLUS
9/94 Wolfgang Lierz miscellaneous
9/94 Mojmir Strhan WPS and REBOOT VxDs
9/94 Alex V. Korsunov CPU(Central Processing Unit) The microprocessor which executes programs on your computer. stepping codes
9/94 Tim Farley "PSIBM PS/2, any model/1" harddisk/ATA info
9/94 Tim Farley Intel SL Enh. APM BIOS(Basic Input/Output System) A set of standardized calls giving low-level access to the hardware. The BIOS is the lowest software layer above the actual hardware and serves to insulate programs (and operating systems) which use it from the details of accessing the hardware directly.
9/94 Mojmir Strhan more VxDs IDs, misc
9/94 George L. Fulk PSPsee Program Segment Prefix fields, "DOSOpen2"
9/94 Emily Markowicz many typo corrections
10/94 Masashi Fukuda C&T PCIBM PC/CHIP SuperState
10/94 M.w. Pieters DimVGA 3.4, ObjectKernel
10/94 Delman Lee Phoenix Enh. Disk Drive
10/94 Gary E. Miller VESA(Video Electronics Standards Association) An industry group which sets both hardware and software standards and recommendations. The term VESA is also used to denote compliance with the VESA SuperVGA BIOS Extensions, a standard set of video BIOS functions for accessing video modes of higher resolution than those defined by IBMInternational Busiuness Machines. VBE(VESA BIOS Extensions) The common software interface for video cards providing support for high resolution and bit depth./Power Management
11/94 Andreas Groegel VESA(Video Electronics Standards Association) An industry group which sets both hardware and software standards and recommendations. The term VESA is also used to denote compliance with the VESA SuperVGA BIOS Extensions, a standard set of video BIOS functions for accessing video modes of higher resolution than those defined by IBMInternational Busiuness Machines. Audio Interface
11/94 Wolfgang Lierz HP 100LX/200LX
11/94 Mojmir Strhan MSG.COM, PCIBM PC Mag WINGO
11/94 Tim Farley Award CMOS(Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor) A type of integrated circuit design known for its low power consumption., PCMCIA ExCA
12/94 Rob Misiak miscellaneous
12/94 Wolfgang Lierz more HP 100LX/200LX, misc
12/94 Michael A. Shiels EDOS VxDA virtual device driver for Windows 3.x or 95. So called because nearly all of the Windows 3.0 drivers had names of the form "VdeviceD". See also device driver. API(Application Program[ming] Interface) The defined set of calls which a program may make to interact with or request services of the operating system or environment under which it is running. Because the inputs and outputs of the calls are well-defined, a program using the API can continue using the identical calls even if the internal organization of the program providing the API changes.
12/94 Matthias Paul HP Vectra EX-BIOS API(Application Program[ming] Interface) The defined set of calls which a program may make to interact with or request services of the operating system or environment under which it is running. Because the inputs and outputs of the calls are well-defined, a program using the API can continue using the identical calls even if the internal organization of the program providing the API changes.
12/94 Michael A. Shiels DOSISODE
1/95 Jack Ridgway 1:3632/4 Back&Forth Professional
1/95 Matthias Paul miscellaneous
1/95 Tim Farley NetWare Event Serv. Layer
1/95 Stanley Appel UltraMid, MegaEm
1/95 LARVOIRE_JEAN-FRANCOIS/ Vectra,OmniShare
2/95 Tim Farley NetWare NETWARN
2/95 Sven B. Schreiber much more Banyan VINES
2/95 Peter Claus Gutmann IBMInternational Busiuness MachinesInternational Busiuness Machines) A hardware, software and other service technology company founded in 1911./MS INT 13 Extensions
2/95 Fernando Papa QRIP, MultiLink Advanced
2/95 Inbar Raz 2:403:302.42 GRTMOUSE, miscellaneous
3/95 Thomas Brugger more miscellany
3/95 Matthias Paul miscellaneous
3/95 John MSWin PageFile/Reboot
3/95 Wolfgang Lierz Stacker 4, Stac Anywhere
3/95 Norman L. DeForest TI Professional PCIBM PC
3/95 Norman L. DeForest miscellaneous
3/95 Gerard Mannig AMIAmerican Megatrends, Inc.(American Megatrends, Inc.) A hardware, software and firmware company founded in 1985. BIOS-FLASH interface
4/95 Ralf Brown AMIAmerican Megatrends, Inc.(American Megatrends, Inc.) A hardware, software and firmware company founded in 1985. BIOS(Basic Input/Output System) A set of standardized calls giving low-level access to the hardware. The BIOS is the lowest software layer above the actual hardware and serves to insulate programs (and operating systems) which use it from the details of accessing the hardware directly. INT 15 extensns
4/95 Tim Farley PCMCIA Socket Serv. 2.1
4/95 Matthias Paul miscellaneous
4/95 SkullC0DEr SkullC0DEr 2:4631/7 PUPClip
5/95 Peter Charles Tonoli CauseWay
5/95 Stanley Appel DOS32, virusA program which attaches itself to other programs for the purpose of duplicating itself. Viruses often (but not always) contain harmful code which is triggered by some event, after a certain number of reproductions, or on a specific date. See also worm. inst.checks
5/95 Tim Farley Intel SMBus(System Management Bus) A derivative of the I2C bus used for communication between various components of a computer, such as smart batteries and their chargers. In contrast to I2C, SMBus specifies fixed voltage levels (instead of relative to the power supply voltage) and a 10 KHz minimum clock rate (I2C minimum is 0). SMBus also specifies several timings which are not required by I2C. See also I2C, ACCESS.bus.
5/95 Stanley Appel DIGPAK, MIDPAK
5/95 Wolfgang Lierz C&T chips, LapLink RemAcc
6/95 Jun-ichiro ITOH HP 100LX/200LX
6/95 Andreas Groegel Windows95
6/95 Tim Farley XMZ
6/95 James Roberts-Thomson LAN Manager wksta_info
6/95 Peter Charles Tonoli Linux DOSEMU
7/95 Nico Looije NetWare printing, VLMs
7/95 Matthias Paul HugeRealMode server
7/95 Steve Ryckman GO! directory locator
7/95 Ciriaco García de Celis XDF
9/95 Pawel Pilarczyk Atari Portfolio INT 61h
9/95 Phil Mummah EDD 1.1, Bootable CD-ROM
9/95 Phil Mummah ATA-2, BIOS(Basic Input/Output System) A set of standardized calls giving low-level access to the hardware. The BIOS is the lowest software layer above the actual hardware and serves to insulate programs (and operating systems) which use it from the details of accessing the hardware directly. BootTo start up the computer or operating system. The term "boot" is a contraction of "bootstrap", which in turn comes from the expression "to lift oneself by one's boot straps." The ROM BIOS on IBMInternational Busiuness Machines PCs and compatibles reads in the first sector of the disk, which contains a short (less than 500 bytes) program that reads in a portion of the operating system, which in turn reads in the remainder of the operating system. See also IPL. Spec
9/95 Yury Semenov miscellaneous
9/95 Gabor Szappanos virusA program which attaches itself to other programs for the purpose of duplicating itself. Viruses often (but not always) contain harmful code which is triggered by some event, after a certain number of reproductions, or on a specific date. See also worm. install-checks
9/95 Jun-ichiro Itoh HP Hornet chipset
9/95 Alexander I. Bobkov via MODAL PCIBM PC
10/95 K3PLUS, miscellaneous
10/95 WinDOS
11/95 Christophe Vallat virusA program which attaches itself to other programs for the purpose of duplicating itself. Viruses often (but not always) contain harmful code which is triggered by some event, after a certain number of reproductions, or on a specific date. See also worm. checks, 21/7160
11/95 Peter van den Boogert 2:285/414.1 ZFax v4.01
11/95 BSC/SDLC ports, misc
12/95 George Lefterov Q87 v4+ API(Application Program[ming] Interface) The defined set of calls which a program may make to interact with or request services of the operating system or environment under which it is running. Because the inputs and outputs of the calls are well-defined, a program using the API can continue using the identical calls even if the internal organization of the program providing the API changes.
12/95 KEYB internals, kbd codes
1/96 Ghielmeti Lepoldo I1541 API(Application Program[ming] Interface) The defined set of calls which a program may make to interact with or request services of the operating system or environment under which it is running. Because the inputs and outputs of the calls are well-defined, a program using the API can continue using the identical calls even if the internal organization of the program providing the API changes.
1/96 Michael Devore CauseWay v1.3 DOS ext.
2/96 Frank Kintrup Windows95 long filenames
2/96 Robert Thrun (Langley Part, Maryland) Tandy 2000 BIOS(Basic Input/Output System) A set of standardized calls giving low-level access to the hardware. The BIOS is the lowest software layer above the actual hardware and serves to insulate programs (and operating systems) which use it from the details of accessing the hardware directly.
2/96 Wim Kosten ATAPI
3/96 format of .CPI files
3/96 Lesha Bogdanow AWDFLASH/Asustek Flash
4/96 Antti Barck Cx5x86 config registers
4/96 Adam Seychell DOS32 v3.2
4/96 Rob NOISE.SYS v0.53 API(Application Program[ming] Interface) The defined set of calls which a program may make to interact with or request services of the operating system or environment under which it is running. Because the inputs and outputs of the calls are well-defined, a program using the API can continue using the identical calls even if the internal organization of the program providing the API changes.
5/96 James Lin AMIAmerican Megatrends, Inc.(American Megatrends, Inc.) A hardware, software and firmware company founded in 1985. Flash BIOS(Basic Input/Output System) A set of standardized calls giving low-level access to the hardware. The BIOS is the lowest software layer above the actual hardware and serves to insulate programs (and operating systems) which use it from the details of accessing the hardware directly. interface
5/96 Pino Navato 2:335/225.18 misc
5/96 Christophe Vallat virusA program which attaches itself to other programs for the purpose of duplicating itself. Viruses often (but not always) contain harmful code which is triggered by some event, after a certain number of reproductions, or on a specific date. See also worm. checks, Iomega
5/96 Solar Designer Player's Tool, ShowGFX
6/96 George Fulk OS/2, misc
7/96 Jens Rehsack PCMCIA v2
7/96 George Fulk country codes
8/96 Mark Junker Cherry keyboard chipcard
8/96 Dmitry B. Jemerov KeyRus, Volkov Cmdr, etc.
9/96 Kevin Tseng XPACK
9/96 Norman L. DeForest more TI Professional PCIBM PC
10/96 Duncan Murdoch FAT32 API(Application Program[ming] Interface) The defined set of calls which a program may make to interact with or request services of the operating system or environment under which it is running. Because the inputs and outputs of the calls are well-defined, a program using the API can continue using the identical calls even if the internal organization of the program providing the API changes.
10/96 Josef Hatala Novell TCPIP
10/96 Marcus Wirth Banyan printing
11/96 Szappanos Gábor virusA program which attaches itself to other programs for the purpose of duplicating itself. Viruses often (but not always) contain harmful code which is triggered by some event, after a certain number of reproductions, or on a specific date. See also worm. install checks
11/96 Viatcheslav Odintsov 2:5020/50 PU_1700, VIDEMS.SYS
12/96 A Federico Thiella MODRES
12/96 Wolfgang Lierz misc Win95 notes, Toshiba
1/97 Glenn Stumpff PRINDIR v9.0 API(Application Program[ming] Interface) The defined set of calls which a program may make to interact with or request services of the operating system or environment under which it is running. Because the inputs and outputs of the calls are well-defined, a program using the API can continue using the identical calls even if the internal organization of the program providing the API changes.
1/97 Frank Klemm Keyboard Driver API(Application Program[ming] Interface) The defined set of calls which a program may make to interact with or request services of the operating system or environment under which it is running. Because the inputs and outputs of the calls are well-defined, a program using the API can continue using the identical calls even if the internal organization of the program providing the API changes.
1/97 Ralf Brown MS-DOS 7,various VxDA virtual device driver for Windows 3.x or 95. So called because nearly all of the Windows 3.0 drivers had names of the form "VdeviceD". See also device driver. APIs
3/97 code pages, COUNTRY.SYS
3/97 Scott Townsend POSTsee Power-On Self-Test Memory Manager v1.0
4/97 Dietmar Meschede S3VBE/Core, S3 SpeedUp
5/97 Pino Navato 2:335/225.18 misc, PCXDUMP, CDROM
8/97 Jochem Heicke more PCI vendor IDs
9/97 Pino Navato Micro Focus COBOL
10/97 Eugene Lisovy 2:4635/73 VESA(Video Electronics Standards Association) An industry group which sets both hardware and software standards and recommendations. The term VESA is also used to denote compliance with the VESA SuperVGA BIOS Extensions, a standard set of video BIOS functions for accessing video modes of higher resolution than those defined by IBMInternational Busiuness Machines. DDC EDID codes
11/97 Russell A. Bell S3 memory-mapped I/O
12/97 Vik Heyndrickx file sharing for DOS 7
1/98 George L Fulk Win95 updates
1/98 Roger Scudder transcription
1/98 David Brioso transcription
1/98 Pino Navato transcription
3/98 George L. Fulk more DOS int., FAT32 SDAsee Swappable Data Area
5/98 Teppo Lehtonen transcription
6/98 Serguei Shtyliov PCI vendor IDs
6/98 Jens Rehsack Award-BIOS password
7/98 Teppo Lehtonen transcription
7/98 Craig Hart transcription
7/98 Mark Usher Econet
8/98 Teppo Lehtonen transcription
9/98 George L. Fulk misc DOS/Win9X internals
10/98 Sergei Shtylyov Adaptec AHA-154x ports
10/98 Roger Scudder transcription
10/98 Harchris P. Macalisang Soft-ICE backdoor cmds
10/98 Grzegorz Mazur Matrox VESA(Video Electronics Standards Association) An industry group which sets both hardware and software standards and recommendations. The term VESA is also used to denote compliance with the VESA SuperVGA BIOS Extensions, a standard set of video BIOS functions for accessing video modes of higher resolution than those defined by IBMInternational Busiuness Machines./OEM(Original Equipment Manufacturer) a company which purchases components that are resold as part of its own products under the company's own brand name, e.g. a Gateway 2000-branded monitor may actually be a Mag or NEC monitor. calls
10/98 Anthony Naggs XBIOS, EZ-Drive
10/98 Eugene Lisovy Eugene_Lisovy @ 2:4635/73 AWARD APM CMOS(Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor) A type of integrated circuit design known for its low power consumption. settings
11/98 Sergei Shtylyov Adaptec AIC-7xxx,AHA-152x
11/98 John Elliott GEM/ViewMAX
11/98 Herwig Feichtinger WinTel API(Application Program[ming] Interface) The defined set of calls which a program may make to interact with or request services of the operating system or environment under which it is running. Because the inputs and outputs of the calls are well-defined, a program using the API can continue using the identical calls even if the internal organization of the program providing the API changes.
11/98 Rostislav Krasny TrLit API(Application Program[ming] Interface) The defined set of calls which a program may make to interact with or request services of the operating system or environment under which it is running. Because the inputs and outputs of the calls are well-defined, a program using the API can continue using the identical calls even if the internal organization of the program providing the API changes.
12/98 Simon van Dongen VHRBIOS.SYS
4/99 Marcus Morbe AMIGATSR, MULTIJOY
5/99 George L. Fulk CATC USB4DOS
7/99 Dmitry Petrenko VXDLDR V86see Virtual-86 Mode API(Application Program[ming] Interface) The defined set of calls which a program may make to interact with or request services of the operating system or environment under which it is running. Because the inputs and outputs of the calls are well-defined, a program using the API can continue using the identical calls even if the internal organization of the program providing the API changes.
6/00 Matthias Paul DR/OpenDOS, misc
6/00 Matthias Paul PTS-DOS, S/DOS
7/00 Serguei Shtyliov AHA-154x ports, ASPI

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Wim Osterholt <> Original File Chuck Proctor <> Richard W. Watson <> Matthias Paul <> lots.... Serguei Shtyliov <> Xirlink XL-22x Serguei Shtyliov <> TMC-16x0 SCSI(Small Computer Systems Interface) A system-independent expansion bus typically used to connect hard disks, tape drives, and CD-ROMs to a computer. A host adapter connects the SCSI bus to the computer's own bus. See also ESDI, IDE. Serguei Shtyliov <> AHA-154x SCSI(Small Computer Systems Interface) A system-independent expansion bus typically used to connect hard disks, tape drives, and CD-ROMs to a computer. A host adapter connects the SCSI bus to the computer's own bus. See also ESDI, IDE. MPU-401 MIDI(Musical Instrument Digital Interface) A standardized interface for controlling musical instruments with a computer.

Some of the information in this list was extracted from Frank van Gilluwe's The Undocumented PCIBM PC, a must-have book for anyone programming down to the "bare metal" of a PCIBM PC.

Some of the information in this list from the shareware version of Dave Williams' DOSREF, v3.0.

8514/A hardware ports found in FractInt v18.0 source file FR8514A.ASM

Compaq QVision info from the COMPAQ QVision Graphics System Technical Reference Guide, second edition (October 1993). Compaq part number 073A/0693. Much more to come!

AMIAmerican Megatrends, Inc.(American Megatrends, Inc.) A hardware, software and firmware company founded in 1985. keyboard controller PORTIBM PC Portable (uses same BIOS as XT) 0064h commands from the American Megatrends, Inc. Version KF and KH Keyboard Controller BIOS(Basic Input/Output System) A set of standardized calls giving low-level access to the hardware. The BIOS is the lowest software layer above the actual hardware and serves to insulate programs (and operating systems) which use it from the details of accessing the hardware directly. Reference, available on the AMIAmerican Megatrends, Inc.(American Megatrends, Inc.) A hardware, software and firmware company founded in 1985. BBS and american.megatrends.com as KFKHMAN.ZIP.

Various chipset infos from "Het BIOS(Basic Input/Output System) A set of standardized calls giving low-level access to the hardware. The BIOS is the lowest software layer above the actual hardware and serves to insulate programs (and operating systems) which use it from the details of accessing the hardware directly. Boekje" 2nd edition, by Alle Metzlar, ISBN 90-72260-59-7 (1995).

ATA-3 info from "ATIBM PC AT Attachment-3 Interface (ATA-3) Revision 1", dated April 21, 1995.

Some additional EISA(Enhanced Industry-Standard Architecture) A 32-bit superset of the IBMInternational Busiuness Machines ATIBM PC AT's expansion bus (which is now known as the ISA or Industry-Standard Architecture bus). info from EISA(Enhanced Industry-Standard Architecture) A 32-bit superset of the IBMInternational Busiuness Machines ATIBM PC AT's expansion bus (which is now known as the ISA or Industry-Standard Architecture bus). System Architecture (second edition), by MindShare, Inc. (Addison-Wesley 1995, ISBN 0-201-40995-X).

AMIAmerican Megatrends, Inc.(American Megatrends, Inc.) A hardware, software and firmware company founded in 1985. BIOS(Basic Input/Output System) A set of standardized calls giving low-level access to the hardware. The BIOS is the lowest software layer above the actual hardware and serves to insulate programs (and operating systems) which use it from the details of accessing the hardware directly. diagnostics codes (port 0080h) from file CHECKPTS on AMIAmerican Megatrends, Inc.(American Megatrends, Inc.) A hardware, software and firmware company founded in 1985. BBS.

Some S3 and additional ATI Mach8/Mach32 info from Richard F. Ferraro's Programmer's Guide to the EGAEnhanced Graphics Adapter(Enhanced Graphics Adapter) IBMInternational Busiuness Machines's second color video board for the IBMInternational Busiuness Machines PCIBM PC family, capable of a maximum resolution of 640x350 pixels in 16 simultaneous colors of a total of 64 possible colors., VGAVideo Graphics Array(Video Graphics Array) The video adapter introduced with the IBMInternational Busiuness Machines PS/2IBM PS/2, any model series of computers., and Super VGAVideo Graphics Array(Video Graphics Array) The video adapter introduced with the IBMInternational Busiuness Machines PS/2IBM PS/2, any model series of computers. Cards, third edition.

PCnet-ISA info from Am79C960 PCnet-ISA™ Technical Manual, May 1992, available from http://www.amd.com as 16850B.PDF; additional details from file 16907B.PDF.

PCnet-SCSI info from Am79C974 PCnet™-SCSI Combination Ethernet and SCSI(Small Computer Systems Interface) A system-independent expansion bus typically used to connect hard disks, tape drives, and CD-ROMs to a computer. A host adapter connects the SCSI bus to the computer's own bus. See also ESDI, IDE. Controller for PCI Systems, available from http://www.amd.com as 18681B.PDF.

PCnet-FAST info from _Am79C971 PCnet™-FAST_Single-Chip_Full-Duplex_10/100_ Mbps Ethernet Controller for PCI Local Bus, available from http://www.amd.com as 20550B.PDF.

S.M.A.R.T. information from Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.) (SFF-8035i), Revision 2.0, April 1, 1996. Available as 8035r2_0.PDF from fission.dt.wdc.com/pub/standards/SFF/.

A variety of ports from Frank van Giluwe's The Undocumented PCIBM PC, second edition.

[many more sources listed in BIBLIO.LST]



Christian Ludloff's 80x86.CPU(Central Processing Unit) The microprocessor which executes programs on your computer.
Alex V. Potemkin's Opcodes List (OPCODES.LST) for lots of info, including AMD
Athlon Intel Pentium Pro Family User's Guide, Volume 3, Appendix C