Re:Ask HN: What are the best books on low-level programming
by le-mark on Friday June 30, 2017 @10:36AM
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"Programming from the Ground Up" is a really fantastic book that starts with some architecture, assembler and executable file format. Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11702025
Re:Ask HN: What are the best books on low-level programming
by zero_one_one on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @06:16AM
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Peter Norton and John Socha - Peter Norton's Assembly Language for the IBM PC.
Hideously outdated, and has practically no real world application any more, but is conversely an incredibly lucid, explanatory, and beatifully written as a guide to 16-bit Assembly language on the IBM (and compatible) PC - Guides you through first examinations of registers and memory through to creating a low-level hard disk editor.
Pop open DosBox, download MASM, and see what you can break!
Currently going for $3 on Amazon - worth a pop for that price if only for a cursory look!
Hideously outdated, and has practically no real world application any more, but is conversely an incredibly lucid, explanatory, and beatifully written as a guide to 16-bit Assembly language on the IBM (and compatible) PC - Guides you through first examinations of registers and memory through to creating a low-level hard disk editor.
Pop open DosBox, download MASM, and see what you can break!
Currently going for $3 on Amazon - worth a pop for that price if only for a cursory look!
https://www.amazon.com/Assembly-Language-Brady-programming-l...
http://www.agner.org/optimize/
http://www.drdobbs.com/parallel/graphics-programming-black-b...