Exam II Material

• Major Topics
  • All lectures up to and including Networking and Floating point.
  • All material on MP3, MP4, and MP5
  • All material on HW3, HW4, and Floating point sections of HW5
  • Table Lookups/Jump Tables
  • Interrupt Service Routines
  • ISR Scheduling (timing analysis)
  • Workings of DOS/BIOS/vBIOS
  • Ports, I/O Subsystem, and devices
  • Video Graphics
  • String Operations (MOVS, CMPS, STOS)

• Things to Remember
  • Efficient programming techniques
    (Algorithms and ASM Opcodes)
  • How programmers communicate with I/O devices
  • How to write on graphics-mode screens (including basic palette)
  • Scheduling of preemptive and nonpreemptive tasks.
  • Floating point number representation

• Things to Forget (reference)
  • Which AL/AH/INT numbers to use for BIOS/vBIOS/DOS calls
  • Numeric values for specific devices (they will be given)

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