Ralf Brown's Interrupt List
Shares rank 5 of 7 reference documentations by recommenders
Free reference documenting PC interrupt calls, valued by low-level programmers for boot loaders, tests and libraries.
Free reference documenting PC interrupt calls, valued by low-level programmers for boot loaders, tests and libraries.
5 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 2 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 2 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
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Why people recommend it
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Core reference for PC architecture
“one of the most useful documentation sets for the PC architecture”
Comment from 2 Nov 2025 on Hacker News “this was a priceless find for an aspiring low-level programmer”
Comment from 2 Nov 2025 on Hacker News Helps with low-level and boot code
“This was invaluable when I was tasked with writing a stay-resident boot loader just after the turn of the century.”
Comment from 2 Nov 2025 on Hacker News “this was a priceless find for an aspiring low-level programmer”
Comment from 2 Nov 2025 on Hacker News
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| Stack Overflow | 235 | 499 | 32% | 12 | 15 yrs39 owners | — |
| MDN Web Docs | 27 | 6 | 82% | 7 | — | Approved |
| HTTP Cats | 20 | 1 | 95% | 1 | 10 yrs3 owners | — |
| Unicode symbol reference page | 8 | 17 | 32% | 1 | — | — |
| Ralf Brown's Interrupt ListThis page | 5 | 0 | 100% | 2 | — | — |
What people said
All 5 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“could go a long way to getting stuff working”
“has always been at my (virtual) side when designing tests or libraries”
“this was a priceless find for an aspiring low-level programmer”
“This was invaluable when I was tasked with writing a stay-resident boot loader just after the turn of the century.”
“one of the most useful documentation sets for the PC architecture”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.