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>could someone please give me some hints on learning assembly. I have written
>-one
>or two little test programs in 'C' that do boring stuff like add numbers
>together and even that too nearly 50k! So I am going to switch to assembly.
>I just need to be told where to start. Should I start with a book, by
>-debugging
>something or what ?? I would like to write nice little programs, for example
>a phone-dialler...
>
>Cheers everyone.
>
>-//-> Kelvin Lawson
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Kelvin,
Are you talking about 370 assembler or assembler on PC?? They are
"completely" different (to me, anyway).
For System/370 Assembler, I've started with following books:
  1) 370/360 Assembler Language Programming by Stern, Sager, Stern; published
by Wiley. This book is used by many college classes and is a very good
starter book.
  2) MVS Assembler Language by Kevin McQuillen, Anne Prince; published by Mike
Murach & Associates, Inc. This is very good self-learning book.  Little more
advanced then #1, and gives lots of examples.
  3) Advanced Assembler Language and MVS Interfaces by Carmine Cannatello;
published by Wiley.  This is a very good advanced assembler book.  It pickes
up after where #2 left off. It goes into Macro Assembler, SVC, Macro
Instructions, ADEND Recovery, SVC 99, Processing of PDS, Channel Programming,
31-bit addressing, Inter-Address Space Communications, etc.  This book
requires previous "good" knowledge of assembler language.

For PC Assembler, try:
  Assembly Language Primer for IBM PC & XT by Robert Lafore; published by the
Waite Group.  Yes, this is old book (not AT), but does give very good
fundamentals for PC Assembler with many examples and figures.  I've goen
thru few PC assembler books, but I've found this one to be the best (at the
time). --- I'm sure there are newer books out covering PC/AT level systems.

Enjoy!
   Ski Taniguchi
   Intel Corp.
   Phoenix, AZ