Assembly language book for the IBM PC
by Peter Norton, John Socha · first published 1986
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“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…
on “What Was Your First Coding Book?” ↗…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.…
on “Say hello to x64 Assembly, part 1” ↗…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.
on “Turbo Pascal: A Great Choice for Programming Under CP/M (2013)” ↗