Re: confused asm newbie

[b klein <b_klein1@yahoo.com>]

hello.
I hope you dont mind me shortening up a little
--- Philip Jacob Smith <pj@evobsyniva.com> wrote:
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> I know what you mean about those assembly language
> books.  They try to teach assembly like it's a
> language, when it's not (despite the "assembly
> language" name), and so they actually end up
> teaching how to use one particular assembler (which
> is really what you would want to call a language)
> with one particular operating system, and usually
> just do a lot of "here's how you do it" stuff and
> not enough "here's how this works" type stuff.
> 
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im trying to learn asm and use nasm, ald and a little
gdb for it. im not a newbie to programming or
assembly. ive learned it some time ago and come back
to it now. so my question is what is the important
bits that are worth learning? Im not interested in
learning a tool, i want to learn the .. well
'language'
but if it isnt a language, what should it be?
addressing modes, big-little endian, memory models,
8-16-32-64 (12?) bits processors, ports, interupts or
something else?
 


this is my first post, i hope it isnt too bad.


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