Book to learn

From: Kewoul (Kewool_at_Kewool.com)
Date: 04/16/04 

Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 17:56:16 +0000 (UTC)

Hello,

what is the best book to learn assembly ? I would like a book which
introduce to PC architecture so as for me to understand why data needs to be
aligned and so on... Even an old book is welcome since I'm interested in
seing the evolution from 8086/88 to Pentium. I don't plan to program for a
particular OS, I'm interested in OS development.

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