Guide to Assembly Language Programming in Linux

Sivarama P. Dandamudi

ISBN 10: 0387258973 / ISBN 13: 9780387258973

Published by Springer US, Springer US Jul 2005, 2005

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This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Processor designs can be broadly divided into CISC (Complex Instruction Set Computers) and RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computers). The dominant processor in the PC market, Pentium, belongs to the CISC category, and Linux is fast becoming the number onethreat to Microsoft¿s Windows in the server market. This unique guidebook provides comprehensive coverage of the key elementsof Assemblylanguage programming, specifically targeting professionals and students who would like to learn Assembly and intend or expect to move to the Linux operating system.The book instructs users on how to install Linux on existing Windows machines. Readers are introduced to Linux and its commands, and will gain insights into the NASM assembler (installation and usage).Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 564 pp. Englisch. Seller Inventory # 9780387258973

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Title: Guide to Assembly Language Programming in ...

Publisher: Springer US, Springer US Jul 2005

Publication Date: 2005

Binding: Taschenbuch

Condition: Neu

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Synopsis:

Processor designs can be broadly divided into CISC (Complex Instruction Set Computers) and RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computers). The dominant processor in the PC market, Pentium, belongs to the CISC category, and Linux is fast becoming the number one threat to Microsoft’s Windows in the server market. This unique guidebook provides comprehensive coverage of the key elements of Assembly language programming, specifically targeting professionals and students who would like to learn Assembly and intend or expect to move to the Linux operating system.

The book instructs users on how to install Linux on existing Windows machines. Readers are introduced to Linux and its commands, and will gain insights into the NASM assembler (installation and usage).

About the Author:

Sivarama P. Dandamudi is a professor of computer science at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, as well as associate editor responsible for computer architecture at the International Journal of Computers and Their Applications.  He has more than two decades of experience teaching about computer systems and organization.