c60b-4aa@web-4e.berkeley.edu (Matthew Hills) (11/26/90)
I recall someone asking this question before, but as I didn't take notes: What are some good books for assembly on the Mac? (I am mainly looking for a reference guide on 680xx instructions, but don't mind books with some attempts to explain what is going on, etc...) Thanks, Matthew Hills c60b-4aa@web.berkeley.edu Motto: "It just doesn't get ... any better than this"
mkelly@cs.uoregon.edu (Michael A. Kelly) (11/26/90)
In article <1990Nov26.054821.8534@agate.berkeley.edu> c60b-4aa@web-4e.berkeley.edu (Matthew Hills) writes: > >I recall someone asking this question before, but as I didn't take notes: > >What are some good books for assembly on the Mac? >(I am mainly looking for a reference guide on 680xx instructions, but don't > mind books with some attempts to explain what is going on, etc...) Me too! Mike. -- Michael A. Kelly | "Fish heads, fish heads, Internet: mkelly@cs.uoregon.edu | Roly-poly fish heads, America Online: Michael792 | Fish heads, fish heads, Compu$erve: 73567,1651 | Eat them up, yum!" - Barnes & Barnes
schorsch@oxy.edu (Brent William Schorsch) (11/28/90)
In article <1990Nov26.054821.8534@agate.berkeley.edu> c60b-4aa@web-4e.berkel > >I recall someone asking this question before, but as I didn't take notes: > >What are some good books for assembly on the Mac? >(I am mainly looking for a reference guide on 680xx instructions, but don't > mind books with some attempts to explain what is going on, etc...)
schorsch@oxy.edu (Brent William Schorsch) (11/28/90)
sorry about the last "blank" one... In article <1990Nov26.054821.8534@agate.berkeley.edu> c60b-4aa@web-4e.berkel > >I recall someone asking this question before, but as I didn't take notes: > >What are some good books for assembly on the Mac? >(I am mainly looking for a reference guide on 680xx instructions, but don't > mind books with some attempts to explain what is going on, etc...) . I have "MPW and Assembly Language" by Scott Kronick, published by Hoaward W. Sams & company, (it is a "Hayden Macintosh Library book".) This book is dated (1987) but is useful if you know little of no assembly and are new to MPW. Also Motorola's books on the 680x0 series are useful. hope this helps... Brent Schorsch
paul@u02.svl.cdc.com (Paul Kohlmiller) (11/28/90)
mkelly@cs.uoregon.edu (Michael A. Kelly) writes: >In article <1990Nov26.054821.8534@agate.berkeley.edu> c60b-4aa@web-4e.berkeley.edu (Matthew Hills) writes: >> >>What are some good books for assembly on the Mac? >>(I am mainly looking for a reference guide on 680xx instructions, but don't >> mind books with some attempts to explain what is going on, etc...) >Me too! Consider this a very minor tip. I would also like to find a book like this but then I looked on my shelf and found this: 68000 Assembly Language Programming by Kane, Hawkins and Leventhal. Copyright 1981?! I don't know if this helps because the mnemonics used might not match the assembler that you have. This book originally cost $16.99 at the Stanford Bookstore and I got it for 25% off because they were obviously dumping it. Good Luck. -- // Paul H. Kohlmiller // "Cybers, Macs and Mips" // // Control Data Corporation // Internet: paul@u02.svl.cdc.com // // All comments are strictly // America Online: Paul CDC // // my own. // Compuserve: 71170,2064 //
cramer@iex.iex.com (Bill Cramer) (11/28/90)
In article <28875@shamash.cdc.com> paul@u02.svl.cdc.com (Paul Kohlmiller) writes: >I would also like to find a book like this but >then I looked on my shelf and found this: >68000 Assembly Language Programming by Kane, Hawkins and Leventhal. >Copyright 1981?! This book has been updated to include 68020 instructions. No MMU or FP instructions, but it does has the newer addressing modes and bit fields operators found on the 020, 030, and (I assume) the 040. 68000 Assembly Language Programming Levanthal, Hawkins, Kane, and Cramer Osborne MacGraw-Hill, 1986 Bill Cramer | "The greed of the few outweighs IEX Corporation | the needs of the many." Plano, Texas | -- popular American theme {uunet,convex,ntvax}!iex!cramer |
aries@rhi.hi.is (Reynir Hugason) (11/30/90)
My favorite one is: The Motorola MC68020 and MC68030 Microprocessors Assembly langauge, interfacing, and design Harman L. Thomas, Prentice-Hall International, Inc., 1989 It's not a Mac book, but it does a very good job at explaining what the heck is going on in that little black box of a processor. A few topics it covers: native data types, addressing modes, data transfer, program control, arithmetic and logic operations, processor states and modes, system control instructions, exception-handling, chaching, coprocessor protocol, MC68881, differences of the MC68851 and the internal memory management of the MC68030, and interfacing peripheral chips. This is your book if you need to know everything about about anything :-) /// Mimir Reynisson Software Island
jxf@castor.cis.ksu.edu (Jerry Frain) (12/01/90)
For Mac users, the following is a very good book:
68030 Assembly Language Reference (includes the 68020)
by Steve Williams
Good description of the 68000 series chips in general. At least a
page description for each instruction; includes 68881/2 and 68851
instructions as well.
Coding examples in MPW C and MPW assembler. Williams talks about
the Mac quit a lot.
--Jerry
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