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From: DFJOHN01@ULKYVX.BITNET (GMAIL_FLAG_PERSONAL_NAME)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Getting started in Assembly on the Mac (HOW?)
Message-ID: <8902150414.AA06752@jade.berkeley.edu>
Date: 15 Feb 89 02:32:00 GMT
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Organization: University of Louisville
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Greeting from the University of Louisville (U of L)!!! (My 1st Posting)

I am an Engineering Math and Computer Science major at U of L's Speed
Scientific School. While the only Macintosh available on the whole campus for
student use is a 512K RAM, 400k single-sided floppy machine, I managed to
familiarize myself with most of the toolbox through my endeavors with Turbo and
Lightspeed Pascals this past summer and fall.

To redefine the word "extreme", I recently obtained a full-time position with
the University's Typesetting department and am the proud "owner" of a Mac II w/
4mb RAM, 40mb hard disk with a Radius Two-Page Display monitor. (I also mess
around with our graphic designer's IIx 4/80 with a rasterOps 24-bit color
monitor, and a Sharp 24-bit color scanner).

So now I think that I am ready for the big league and would like to learn
Assembly language on the Mac. I have NO previous experience with assembly.

My three main reasons for wanting to learn it are:
  1) To understand disassembled code.
  2) To understand "debugger's" language.
  3) To make my code run faster.

I have purchased all of MPW, including the Pascal & C compilers, the Assembler,
MacApp, SADE and TML, and the TML source code library (which is AWESOME). Can
you advise a soul such as mine as to how to get started with Assembly?

Thanks in advance...

David F. Johnson         | Bitnet   : DFJOHN01@ULKYVX
Typesetter II / Student  | INTERNET : dfjohn01%ulkyvx.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu
University of Louisville | UUCP     : ...psuvax1!ulkyvx.bitnet!dfjohn01

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