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Title: IBM PC Assembly Language and Programming (5th Edition) by Peter Abel ISBN: 0-13-030655-X Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 15 January, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $81.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.93 (15 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Too Operating System Dependent
Comment: I bought this book for the express purpose of learning and programming PC-BIOS Assembly language functions, because I read the 3rd edition of this same book and found it to be excellent. I was severely disappointed to learn that the very chapter I wanted to thoroughly dissect was rewritten from being operating system independent to being operating system dependent, the dependent operating systems being DOS and Windows 95/98. A good deal of the information in this book depends upon these operating systems and will not work with Windows 2000, ME, or XP.
The book provides meticulously thorough backgrounds, mundane explanations, and vague and ambiguous examples. Personally, I wish the depth of information was structured completely opposite.
If you just want to "learn the ropes" of Assembly and have access to a DOS or Windows 95/98 machine to learn them on, this book will do. If you need something portable, something operating system independent, this book is not for you.
Rating: 4
Summary: An Excellent Overview of Assembly Language
Comment: While not perfect for the beginning x86 assembly language programmer, Abel's text is an excellent overview of the basic and intermediate concepts of x86 assembly. This text covers many of the commands of the x86 instruction set and is an excellent introduction to learning about various BIOS and DOS interrupts. Herein lies a slight problem with the text. Relying too heavily on the "old world" of DOS and Windows 95/98 (and possibly - depending on your system - Windows 2000), this text often takes for granted that you are running on an older Microsoft-based x86 system. As long as you can overcome this compatibility "hurdle", this text is an excellent source for learning about x86 assembly. It covers the topic of machine code, which is of prime importance for those who are interested in writing assembler and compilers (and for writing succinct assembly), and also has copious notes on all the instructions taught in the text.
Rating: 1
Summary: a reference book...
Comment: This book is not recommended to anyone who just started learning assembly, as they're very hard to understand.
For beginners, I would highly recommend "80x86 IBM PC AND COMPATIBLE COMPUTERS (Volumes I & II)" by Muhammad Ali Mazidi, which also covers the subject thoroughly.
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Title: Operating System Concepts by Abraham Silberschatz, Greg Gagne, Peter Baer Galvin ISBN: 0471250600 Publisher: Wiley Text Books Pub. Date: 08 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $95.95 |
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Title: Teach Yourself C++, Seventh Edition by Al Stevens ISBN: 0764526448 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: C++: An Introduction to Data Structures by Larry Nyhoff ISBN: 0023887257 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 21 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $81.00 |
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Title: Signals, Systems, and Transforms (3rd Edition) by Charles L. Phillips, John M. Parr, Eve A. Riskin ISBN: 0130412074 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 19 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $116.00 |
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Title: Computer System Architecture (3rd Edition) by M. Morris Mano ISBN: 0131755633 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 19 October, 1992 List Price(USD): $113.00 |
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