4 comments about 80X86 IBM PC and Compatible Computers, The: Assembly Language, Design, and Interfacing, Vol I and II.

1. I have learned 68000 family assembly and hardware and now i am entering the Intel family. I didn't know that studying this book can make things so easy! The authors really make things simple and clear, and yet all the important points are there! And the examples are simple and straightforward, and they do serve their purpose in explaining concepts! I fully recommend for beginners in assembly and microprocessors.



2. This book jumps around to much. The information should be brought together in a smoother flow on how to program.



3. This book is very thorough and easy to read and understand. Extremely well organized. If you are familiar with an other architecture or a high level language this book will teach you Intel assembly.



4. I really dig this book, and don't regret spend an enormous amount of money purchasing it. It's suprisingly clear and terse for a manual as complete as it is. There's only reason I can't give it five stars; there's no discussion of BIOS-level disk I/O. That's important stuff; some of us have operating systems to write!

3 comments about Visual C++ Optimization with Assembly Code.

1. The book delivers what the title promises: how to combine Visual C++ with assembler. Each possible combination of calls (C++ -> assembler, assembler -> C++) will be explained in great detail. Examples are kept simple which helps the reader to not loose survey what's the point to be explained in that example.
   You should not expect to get much instructions how to write the fastest assembly code possible. The book gives only a couple of hints in chapter 1 ("The existing loop commands ... slow down the overall performance of the program and are indeed an anachronism to the modern processor models."). It doesn't prevent the author to use that loop command in later examples anyway.
   Sometimes I also missed explanations about assembly commands and MASM directives used in the examples. If you completely want to understand what's going on you have to have additional reference material (Intel, MASM) at hand.
   Conclusion: It's a great book about all aspects of interaction between Visual C++ and assembly language. If you want to know how to get out most of your assembly code you should use a different book (e.g. "Inner Loops" by Rick Booth)



2. Do yourself a favour and read the introduction, or really any part of it, before plonking down your hard-earned money. Thank God I could return it.



3. This book is so bad, I don't know where to start:
   1. Riddled with typos
   2. Keeps using _beginthread (instead of _beginthreadex)
   3. Better information available in online docs.

No comments about Performance evaluation of closed tree-structured assembly systems.: An article from: IIE Transactions.

No comments about Assembly Language Subroutines for MS-DOS Computers.

1 comments about Assembly Language for Engineers (Ellis Horwood Series in Corrosion and Its Prevention).

1. I am an EE that needed a refresher course in Assembly Language. This book provided my being able to get back to speed at a very good pace.

2 comments about Structured Programming in Assembly Language for the IBM PC and PS/2.

1. I have not actually read this this book, but it is probably good or no one would publish it



2. We used this book in our college assembly language class. (If you have trouble finding this book, get it at a junior college bookstore.) I found it very useful, but might be difficult for a person who hasn't programmed in assembly language before. (For the rank beginner, Robert Lafore's Assembly Language Primer for the IBM PC and XT, circa 1984, is very easy reading - find it at a library, it may be out of print now.) Runnion's book has information on 32-bit instructions, as well as BCD (big integer) algorithms. The appendices give the syntax for most of the Intel x86 instructions (16-bit as well as 32-bit). Nothing on Windows programming though - all examples run in a DOS window.

No comments about Integrated Design of a Product Family and Its Assembly System.

No comments about IBM Pc/8088 Assembly Language Programming.

No comments about GNU MDK: GNU MIX Development Kit.

No comments about Assembler Language for the IBM System 370 a Modular Approach.