gnu@sun.uucp (John Gilmore) (03/13/85)
The best is still the Motorola manual. My preference is the Fourth
Edition (blue cover) manual, which describes the 68000, 68010, and
68008 from a software point of view.
This should be available from Motorola or from Prentice-Hall. (Motorola
wrote it, P-H published it.) Its catalog info is:
M68000 16/32-bit Microprocessor
Programmer's Reference Manual
Fourth Edition
Lib of Congress catalog card # 83-62991
ISBN 0-13-541400-8 {Limited Ed., which is what we seem to have}
ISBN 0-13-566795-X
ISBN 0-13-541392-3 {Special Ed.}
Motorola order # M68000UM(AD4)
Prentice-Hall is in Englewood Cliffs, NJ, zip 07632.
I've never found a publisher who wouldn't sell single quantities of
a book for a reasonable price (since the retailer doesn't get a cut).
Most of the other books seem to be poor mishmashes of the Motorola
manual with whatever assembly language examples they had from their
last book on the 8080.
The best way I've found to learn an assembler language is to read the
manual and then find some well-written code for that machine.