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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 10:15:37 PST
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- From: Ski Taniguchi <Ski_Taniguchi@CCM.HF.INTEL.COM>
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- >could someone please give me some hints on learning assembly. I have written
- >-one
- >or two little test programs in 'C' that do boring stuff like add numbers
- >together and even that too nearly 50k! So I am going to switch to assembly.
- >I just need to be told where to start. Should I start with a book, by
- >-debugging
- >something or what ?? I would like to write nice little programs, for example
- >a phone-dialler...
- >
- >Cheers everyone.
- >
- >-//-> Kelvin Lawson
- >-//-> InterNet: LiveWire@sound.demon.co.uk
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- Kelvin,
- Are you talking about 370 assembler or assembler on PC?? They are
- "completely" different (to me, anyway).
- For System/370 Assembler, I've started with following books:
- 1) 370/360 Assembler Language Programming by Stern, Sager, Stern; published
- by Wiley. This book is used by many college classes and is a very good
- starter book.
- 2) MVS Assembler Language by Kevin McQuillen, Anne Prince; published by Mike
- Murach & Associates, Inc. This is very good self-learning book. Little more
- advanced then #1, and gives lots of examples.
- 3) Advanced Assembler Language and MVS Interfaces by Carmine Cannatello;
- published by Wiley. This is a very good advanced assembler book. It pickes
- up after where #2 left off. It goes into Macro Assembler, SVC, Macro
- Instructions, ADEND Recovery, SVC 99, Processing of PDS, Channel Programming,
- 31-bit addressing, Inter-Address Space Communications, etc. This book
- requires previous "good" knowledge of assembler language.
-
- For PC Assembler, try:
- Assembly Language Primer for IBM PC & XT by Robert Lafore; published by the
- Waite Group. Yes, this is old book (not AT), but does give very good
- fundamentals for PC Assembler with many examples and figures. I've goen
- thru few PC assembler books, but I've found this one to be the best (at the
- time). --- I'm sure there are newer books out covering PC/AT level systems.
-
- Enjoy!
- Ski Taniguchi
- Intel Corp.
- Phoenix, AZ
-