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From: glratt@uncle-bens.rice.edu (Glenn Forbes Larratt)
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Subject: Re: Assembly language primers wanted
Summary: Good reference book at hardware level
Message-ID: <1991Jan24.233537.5132@rice.edu>
Date: 24 Jan 91 23:35:37 GMT
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In article <1991Jan23.184840.7737@ariel.unm.edu> kgowen@cie.uoregon.edu (Kevin Gowen) writes:
>I am trying to teach myself 8086/88 assembly language so I can augment my
>C programming.  Can anyone recommend books that assumes you know *nothing*
>about 8086/88 assembler and takes you through the basics?

An oldie but a goodie is "The 8086 Book", by Russell Rector and Goerge Alexy,
(c) 1980 Mcgraw-Hill.

It actually predates the IBM PC, and thus has no information on its
architecture etc., but it's a very good introductory and reference book on
the 8086/8088.



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	Glenn Larratt			glratt@uncle-bens.rice.edu
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