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A few more linkz :
memory management 
.:FAQ:.
- a reference implementation for malloc() from gee.cs.oswego.edu, submitted by abless
HardWare
- official ATA working group the ultimate information source for IDE hard disk programming, submitted by Flashburn.
- another ATA/ATAPI website. To my surprise, it includes a reference driver. Submitted by Srg.
- an introduction to ATA/ATAPI commands. It contains a couple of ASM examples to read sectors and identify drives.
- official USB developers docs and more USB info, both submitted by K.J.
- For USB stuff, authoritative documentation about OHCI, EHCI, (also OHCI for FireWire and OHCI mirror, submitted by Candy and Code Slasher
- A collection of links about serial mice: UART, MS mouse protocol (recommended by Chris Griese, the author of the serial mouse demo program), more about COMx device, and some misc info about how mice work in general.
- other links about PS/2 mice are available through PS2 mouse IRQ thread. You can also grab SANik's PS2 mouse driver
- collected links about Ultra DMA on ATA drives and how PCI configuration comes.
BIOS :
- http://www.clipx.net/ng/bios/, interrupts and POST variables list, an alternative to ralf brown's interrupt list, submitted by GTsphere.
- http://www.vesa.org: official VESA & VBE website, if you need resolutions higher than 640x480x16 colors, this one is for you.
Misc. and Other Stuff :
- quick overview of what realtime Operating Systems are (really), collected by Schol-R-Lea
- stockpile of technical documents in russian, submitted by Tux.
- stockpile of hard-to-find datasheets at http://vgr.tc3net.com/soundblaster/
- stockpile of documents at singlix.org, not directly linkable.