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Summary: Lack of good, challenging examples.
Review: I used this book as the textbook of an assembly class in college and i barely used it. The reason is not that the professor was so good, but rather, that i needed to see how the theory the book covers was applied in reality. In real life if you would have to code in assembly you'd encounter far harder elementary problems than the ones the books limits to. I would suggest not to buy it. Instead I suggest using a free book online which in my opionion - and in the opinion of a bunch of other people as well - is one of the best. The books is called The art of Assembly by Randall Hyde. Good luck.
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Summary: How this book relates to systems programming.
Review: The book's title implies that it has lots of specifics to the Intel Pentium, which it does, but it doesn't have much IBM-PC related details (BIOS etc).It has good sections on abstract principals and maths, which is useful. If you want to write systems-code (which is what I did) then this is not the book for you. I recommend the book by Peter Abel instead, or download the (free) Intel documentation. There are also plenty of online resources. However, assembly language (in my opinion) is for doing system-level stuff - not serious coding and that is the only reason that (I think) most people would want to learn it.
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Summary: Excellent book describing computer architecture.
Review: This book is an excellent resource on how computers work, and the theory behind their operation. The book describes, in detail, number representation, floating point operations, bitwise operations, binary mathematical operations, memory layout, cpu operations, registers, and more. This book's primary focus is not assembly language. Assembly language (via an abstraction called SASM) is merely used in the book to illustrate computer architechture. Those looking for an assembly language refrence should look elsewhere; Those looking for a computer architecture book should purchase this title.
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Summary: Excellent book describing computer architecture.
Review: This book is an excellent resource on how computers work, and the theory behind their operation. The book describes, in detail, number representation, floating point operations, bitwise operations, binary mathematical operations, memory layout, cpu operations, registers, and more. This book's primary focus is not assembly language. Assembly language (via an abstraction called SASM) is merely used in the book to illustrate computer architechture. Those looking for an assembly language refrence should look elsewhere; Those looking for a computer architecture book should purchase this title.
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