Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!mucs!logitek!martino From: martino@logitek.co.uk (Martin O'Nions) Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: Technical books on Intel's 80x86 line wanted Message-ID: Date: 22 Jan 91 15:30:30 GMT References: <1991Jan19.193711.18738@clinet.fi> Organization: Logitek Plc. Lines: 35 dix@clinet.fi (Risto Kaivola) writes: > I need information on the 'internal representation' of >the instruction set. This term isn't probably the right one to use in >Intel world, so I'll provide an example. Given that there is an operand >'move', which copies the contents of a register to another, and we have >the following instruction in an assembly language program: > > move register1, register2 >The 'internal representation' of this instruction might be 0x56750102. >That is, 'internal representation' is 'what the instruction looks in >memory'. You may be suprised, but your local friendly Intel office should be able to provide databooks FOC, which do contain this info. These may not be to everyones tastes, but they do give a lot of info. They get better as the processor progresses - the 8086 is (almost) readable, whilst the 486 book is better than most commercial guides. At least they shouldn't cost you anything (singly, that is. If you get them bound together there's a charge.....) Martin -- DISCLAIMER: All My Own Work (Unless stated otherwise) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Martin O'Nions Logitek Group Support martino@logitek.co.uk -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Down the drinking well / Which the plumber built her Aunt Mathilda fell / - We should buy a filter.... (Harry Graham - Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes)