[net.micro] Assembler book

BARD@MIT-XX.ARPA (Bard Bloom) (09/07/85)

Is there a decent and finitely-priced book on MASM (which I presume is 
Microsoft Assembler)?  I've don't want to do enough assembly programming
to pay for the Microsoft manual.

Thanks,
  Bard @ mit-xx . arpa
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hes@ecsvax.UUCP (Henry Schaffer) (09/09/85)

> Is there a decent and finitely-priced book on MASM    ...
>   Bard @ mit-xx . arpa
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  I'm working my way through "Assembly Language Primer for the
IBM PC & XT" by Robert Lafore (Pub. by Plume/Waite, New American
Library, IBSN:0-452-25711-5, 1984, $24.95, paper)  It starts off at
novice level, teaches the use of debug, the 8088 instructions
set, and has a chapter or two on IBM's macro assembler, either
ASM or MASM.  It also deals with DOS and the machine's innards,
such as generating sounds, disk access, graphics...
  I don't know if this is what you want, but it is well done
(as of 20% of the way through) and not too expensive.
--henry schaffer