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T223 - Microprocessor Based Computers.

What a C Programmer looks like. I found this course incredibly interesting. Unfortunately, I was also plagued by difficulties in completing it. My computer died just before TMA 01 was due in. Luckily I'd done most of the practical work but the course guide is pretty unforgiving about deadlines so I ended up having to edit the C-code in notepad on a cybercafé machine. It didn't have Turbo-C installed so I couldn't check my work, which didn't help much. The other hardware disasters have only served to pile on the misery but I've been getting it together a bit more lately, despite more hardware problems and I muddled through to a pretty respectable pass. Yes, I'm an expert on MS-DOS, Turbo-C, 8086 architecture and VGA displays. Good. Now all I need is a temporal anomaly to catapult me back in time to 1988 and I might actually be employable.

Apparently T223 is now discontinued and has been replaced by T224. You can read the course description of T224 here. Looks quite similar but, I assume, updated to take account of new developments such as 64-bit architecture (actually, even 32 would be an improvement), fire and the wheel. Looking at the old links (spring-cleaning in Oct 2005) I see a lot of the pages I read during the course are now defunct (or in one case password protected) so this page may be a bit bare by the time I've finished editing it.

General T223 Stuff

T223 Students Only : : : Borland Software Archive (You can download Turbo C from here if you can't wait for the software to arrive!) : : : Kath Childs' Page : : : I found Code by this dude called Petzold a very useful pre-course read.

DOS/Batch/Command Line

FDISK.com : : : Horst Schaffer's Batch Utilities and Tools : : : Rob Van Der Woude's Scripting Pages

C

10 Commandments for C Programmers : : : C Reference Guide : : : The Beatles and C Programming : : : Incubus : : : John McGuinn's Tutorial : : : Dennis Ritchie homepage : : : Review of PFE : : : Latest up-to-date version of Programmer's File Editor, the prog used in the course. NB, this is not easy to get from the site so I've mirrored it here, which is actually allowed according to the 'readme' text enclosed in the zip file. : : : I suppose this thing about programming is relevant here...

Past T223 Exam Papers and other Old Crap

...and other useful stuff from Michael Chu, a tutor in OU Hong Kong. The T223 stuff is at the bottom of the page. Discussion group (Very old)

Assembler

GRC tutorial : : : The Real Opcodes

Processors

8086 and PowerPC (Wikipedia) : : : 8086 Architecture : : : Great Microprocessors of the Past and Present : : : How Microprocessor Work : : : MicMac Simulator : : : Emu8086 (Another Emulator)

Data Transfers

Beyond Logic (Includes all kinds of intense stuff but mainly relating to USBand other ports)

TMS Board

Paul Campbell has written a simple *nix equivalent of the TMS board program. It appeared on FC recently and I'm not sure if he intends to put it online but you might mosey over to his web site and have a look.

Other Hardware

The Hardware Book : : : Upgrade/Repair (Powerpoint Slides) : : : Build-It-Yourself