3.2: What additional documentation is recommended for GNO?
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This article is from the Apple II GNO FAQ, by Devin Reade with numerous contributions by others.
3.2: What additional documentation is recommended for GNO?
A#3.2: The GNO Overview has quite a complete reading list for users and
programmers, and it is too long to go into detail here. However,
in general, the references are broken down into the following
categories:
- UNIX reference books.
- C reference books.
- Editor reference books.
- Apple IIgs Programming References
The following list, should also be considered "must have" for
any serious programming:
- The ORCA/C and/or ORCA/M manuals, as appropriate.
- Toolbox volumes 1, 2, 3
- Programmers' Reference for System 6.0/6.0.1
- GS/OS Reference
- Firmware Reference
- Apple Technical Notes
- Apple File Type Notes
- A manual on 65816 assembly programming, if you are
using assembly. One very good manual is:
Lichty, Ron and Eyes, David. _Programming_the_IIgs_
_in_Assembly_Language_, Brady, 1989.
ISBN 0-13-729559-6
You will likely have to get it second hand, as it is no
longer in print.
The following books are recommended:
- Hardware Reference
- Apple Numerics Manual
- Device Driver Reference
- IEEE Std 1003.1-1988 (or later) -- The POSIX standard
for computer environments.
- ANSI/ISO 9899 Standard (defines ANSI/C).
This is an expensive document, but you get a cheap copy
by purchasing Schildt, Herbert _The_Annotated_ANSI_
_C_Standard_, McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0-07-881952-0. The book
is set up so that the standard is printed on the "left"
pages and the annotations are on the "right" pages.
MAKE SURE YOU USE ONLY THE LEFT PAGES; the annotations
have just enough errors in them to be dangerous. Some
of the "left" pages (from the Standard) are also missing.
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