Re: Book to learn

From: xby (x_b_y_at_my-deja.com)
Date: 04/27/04 

Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 11:10:03 +0000 (UTC)

Kewoul <Kewool@Kewool.com> wrote in message news:<407fb17a$0$17493$626a14ce@news.free.fr>...
> 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.

An old book by Ray Duncan, "Power Programming with Microsoft Macro
Assembler" (ISBM 1-55615-256-6, copyright 1992) is a good start for
early PCs, covering many different algorithms such as manipulating
strings, managing files, sorting, binary trees, integer multiple
precision, FPU programming, and more. Plenty of source code examples
compatible with MASM 5.1 are provided.

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