Assembly language book for the IBM PC

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1. ubermonkeyJan 2021
   My assumption is that a HUGE chunk of developers around my age (50) started out with line-numbered GWBASIC or similar, and then had Turbo Pascal as their first "real" language.

   I have had a million technical books in my life, and I held on to many of them for a long time past their technical viability just out of sentimentality. Now I limit myself to half a shelf. On that shelf are my well-worn K&R, a similarly dogeared very early O'Reilly Perl book, the Peter Norton Assembly Language Book for the IBM PC, and a Waite Group book on Turbo Pascal 5.5.

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2. theoutlanderAug 2014
   Thanks for the writeup. I'm going to try it one of these days when I get a break from work/startup. I ordered a few books recently and have been tinkering with writing an OS....got as far as writing a bootloader and then switched gears into learning ASM.

   I bought Peter Norton's Assembly Language Book for the IBM PC. This book is pretty awesome and so relevant even 25 years later!! It covers the basics really well and stops at 386 (the latest proc then) so I don't feel inundated with hundreds of CPU architectures. Yes, I'll eventually get to those.

   The other two books (in case anyone else is interested): X86 Assembly Language and C Fundamentals by Joseph Cavanagh. Operating Systems Design and Implementation (3rd Edition).

   Also, while tinkering with ASM I decided to install MSDOS since the ASM book uses Debug.exe and I couldn't seem to find it for newer OS's. While looking to download MSDOS, I discovered the source code for MSDOS 1.1 & 2.0 @ http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/microsoft-research-lice....

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3. evincarofautumnJul 2012
   “Peter Norton’s Assembly Language Book for the IBM PC”, a handmedown or yard sale find or something. It inspired an early interest in OS development and a few mid-teen years of booting My Very Own OS off a floppy on my middle school’s computers. Compilers and games have since seduced me back into userland, though.
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