[geeks] assembly/architecture tutorial suggestions?

[Joshua D. Boyd]

My suggestion is just to have at with Sparc assembly.  There aren't many
gotcha's in it (the only one I that I've seen cause people trouble is
forgetting to  put NOPs after JMPs).  68030 also isn't bad.  I wouldn't
recommend going to something really old.  And whatever you do, stay away
from intel. 

The class at my school that teaches assembly had me doing inlined asm on
win32.  And we only did the most trivial of things.  I was so bored.  At
my school, that class varies a lot from semester to semester, and
especially from professor to professor.  The best one to take it with is a
physics professor (this is the only CS class taught by a non-cs prof) who
actually has you building small CPUs out of logic gates.  In the middle of
the road is a prof who has the students doing interesting projects
(arbitrarily big numbers) in pure Sparc assembly.

--
Joshua Boyd

On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Bill Bradford wrote:

> Yes, I'm strange.   I dropped out (burned out) of college halfway
> through a computer science course.  I then spent the next ten years
> (almost, so far) getting heavy work experience as a sysadmin.
> 
> However, I never once took an assembly language course, or even 
> anything that got *deep down* into stacks/registers/interrupts/etc.
> 
> High-level languages, I can do.  Machine-level, not yet. 8-)
> 
> Suggestions?  I should probably look for some older PDP books, or
> start out with something simple (8bit) that I can emulate on one
> of my existing boxes.... 
> 
> Bill
> 
> -- 
> Bill Bradford
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> Austin, TX
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