December 1990
Volume 8 Number 12
DEVICE CONTROL
Debugging With Two Monitors
By Art Shipman
Here's the basic machinery you
need to write to a secondary monochrome monitor on your PC.
Using The C Preprocessor For Device Control
By Art Mansky
A few simple macros can really
clarify code that directly manipulates device control and
status registers.
Writing MS-DOS Device Drivers
By Marcus Johnson
Use these simple device drivers to
say "Hello, World" to the MS-DOS resident.
Buffering Mouse Events
By Michael Kelly
Bring a taste of PS/2 to MS-DOS.
OTHER FEATURES
Coding For Superscalar Architectures
By Dr. Timothy Prince
You can meet C compilers more than
halfway to improve the use of vector hardware, often without
sacrificing performance on conventional machines.
An Object-Based Real-Time Executive
By Michel de Champlain
Organizing a real-time executive
as a library of objects shows how simple the basic machinery
can be.
Inter-Process Communication With Sockets
By Bryan Glennon
Sockets offer both power and
flexibility in UNIX. Learn the basics on UNIX sockets with
this simple introduction.
State Machines In C
By Paul Fischer
State machines are fundamental
building blocks of program logic. They also translate neatly
into C.
COLUMNS
Standard C
P. J. Plauger
Doctor C's Pointers
Rex Jaeschke
Questions & Answers
Ken Pugh
On The Networks
Sydney Weinstein
USER REPORTS
C-scape And Look & Feel
Comments By Ian Ashdown
BOOK REVIEWS
Numerical Recipes In C
Reviewed By Dwayne Phillips
X Window System Series
Reviewed By Vince Guarna