6 May
2007
6 May
'07
1:02 a.m.
In article <463C9ECC.16427.23507AFE at cclist.sydex.com>,
"Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> writes:
Actually, assembly was a step up. I started by
programming machine
language. The sad thing is that architectures are far less varied
than they were 30-40 years ago. Maybe that's a good thing; maybe
not.
Au contraire. "Architecture" these days is whatever you want it to be
cooked into an FPGA. Maybe you don't consider that architecture, but
the hardware possibilities available to you for low cost these days
are limited only by your imagination and gate count. Of course
there's a trade-off between speed and versatility but FPGA designs are
*very* popular for custom architectures these days.
I note that Jeff Duntemann's got a book out
called "Step by Step
Assembly". I'm not familiar with it, but do know Jeff's style of
writing from his DDJ articles. He's got a nice folksy feel to his
prose so the assembly book might be good.
I've also read this book trying to learn assembly. The problem with
the "folksy style" is that it just takes up too much time and space
being folksy and not enough time and space covering the details. IMO
this book isn't worth buying. Fortunately I spent very little money
on it by purchasing it as a remainder.
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