William Chops Westfield wrote:
>
>     Just as a comment on the books that were suggested on the list yesterday;
>     they're all out of print.  I was kinda amazed by that, but you can't find
>     one of any of them new in a bookstore.
>
> People don't program PCs in assembly any more.  The last time it was a
> reasonable thing to do was probably slightly before the 286 machines came
> out, and now it's close to laughable.  What is the average program these
> days, anyway?  10% new code and 90% windows libraries and system calls?
>
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> BillW

Dick Smiths Electronics sell "PC Architecture & Assembly language" by
Bary Kauler (still going 1995 anyway) (publisher Karda Prints in
OZtraaaaaalia)   Has companion disk with pop up Assembley reference,
also DOS services etc.

Shareware Assembler is also included.

As Bill generalized above, assembly language programming is kind of past
it's use by date today *unless* high speed drivers or intimate control
of processor is required.

regards,
Graham Daniel.