December 1992
Volume 10 Number 12
DEVICE CONTROL
Bimodal Interrupt Handling Under 80286 DOS Extenders
By Mark Nelson
Avoid switching between real and
protected modes to speed interrupt processing.
Windows Device Drivers
By Daniel A. Norton
Adding a driver to Windows isn't
easy, but it's not impossible either.
A MIDI Device Driver for XENIX
By Danny Lawrence
Multi-Media on UNIX? Not quite,
but with this device driver, you can at least talk to MIDI
devices.
FEATURES
Objective-C Programming on NeXT (Article unavailable in electronic form)
By Nigel Taylor
C++ isn't the only object-oriented
extension to C that has earned a serious following.
Tuning Up Math Functions
By Tim Prince
Dr. Prince shows that math
functions can always be made better.
Build Applications Faster with State Transition Automatons
By Alan Cline
If it looks at all like a parser,
you can code it fast as a finite-state machine.
COLUMNS
Standard C: Searching Strings
P. J. Plauger
Code Capsules: Text Processing III — Substrings
Chuck Allison
Q & A: Formatting Floppies with an Embedded Controller
Ken Pugh
On the Networks: Finally — It's Here!
Sydney Weinstein
CUG New Releases: Shareware for Windows/Updates
Steve Graham
USER REPORT
An Easy Road to Windows
Comments by Steve Graham
BOOK REVIEW
C By Example
Reviewed by Kirk Thomas