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What is the definitive book on assembly language and Computer Architecture

I am taking a Computer Architecture course next semester and besides the required book I also like to get some other resources.

It seems that there tends to be one book that stands above the rest in most areas of computing,(The Dragon Book, K&R).

So I am wondering if there is a consensus on a definitive book on x86 asm and computer architecture?

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Jason  2008-10-23 19:55:19
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Bill the Lizard  2008-10-23 20:00:12
Excellent book, wish I still had my copy! (gave it away a few years ago).
Brian Knoblauch  2008-10-23 20:07:37
I have trouble trusting anything with the name Norton on it.
Kibbee  2008-10-23 20:08:46
@Kibbee: LOL, this was written a long time ago. It won't slow your computer down, I promise.
Bill the Lizard  2008-10-23 20:14:42
i had this one, total garbage. much better was a small mimeographed booklet i bought at a bazar for a couple bucks.
Javier  2008-10-23 20:56:43
@Kibbee: This book was WAAYYY before the whole Norton AV thing. :-)
Brian Knoblauch  2008-12-29 21:10:41
Is norton pictured in this pose on everything he writes or is associated with? jeez.
Gary Willoughby  2009-01-20 17:57:20
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I like Tannenbaum's Structured Computer Organization for the architecture question. (Amazon link)

For assembly language, that's entirely dependent upon what platform you're writing for: MIPS, x86, 68k, etc.

warren  2008-10-23 20:00:19
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mdb  2008-10-23 20:03:02
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"The 8086 Book" - Rector/Alexy (I believe, going from memory here).

Brian Knoblauch  2008-10-23 20:06:57
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Barry Brey's tome on the IA-32 architecture is quite comprehensive. The book I read was by Peter Abel, it focussed on assembly language programming for MS DOS. A long long time ago, but awesome fun. :)

Pramod  2008-10-23 20:08:27
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We used "The Principles of Computer Organization" at UT back in the 90's.

unclerojelio  2009-01-20 17:35:51
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Matt J  2009-01-20 17:51:40
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Check this out..

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This was my favourite book back in engineering course.

I lost it somewhere few days back....

:(

puttaraju  2010-10-12 19:21:16

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