old 8088 system course++ - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

15 Mar 2006

I found most books on assembly confusing. The 8088
architecture with regards to assembly programming is
not exactly trivial stuph, so if yer learning on yer
own, a thorough structured text is essential. The only
thing I personally have seen that did the trick is the
first edition of IBM PC Assembler Language and
Programming by Peter Abel.
--- cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org
<acme_ent at bellsouth.net> wrote:
...
  Joe R. wrote:

  >    I agree. Go find a copy of Inside the IBM PC and the other books
...
   > (Assembly Language Programming??) by Peter
Norton. They explain the 
...
  insides
  of the PC very well.

    Joe  

 Ya know, I found the Norton book to be really disjointed --
...
  it didn't present the information in an A to Z
sort of way.
...
  IIRC he didn't write it but lent his name to a
previously
...
  published book ("Assembly Language Safari on the
IBM PC" by
...
  mumble and mumble). I'll check my copy tonight
& verify that.
...

 OTOH, "Inside the IBM PC" is a *really* valuable tool,
...
  as well as a historical resource, and you'd have
to pry my
...
  first edition copy from my cold, dead hands ;-)

 Glen
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