Postby Technomancer » Wed Jan 17, 2007 8:39 am
termyt wrote:Ahhhh assembler. I haven't programmed in it since college. I'm such a waste of a potentially good programmer.
It's important to know what you will be programming on. Each platform can have a unique set of assembler commands. However, I assume you will be using an intel platform, so the stuff here is pretty relevant.
This would be true. Pretty much any general course on assembler would be using an Intel x86 platform. There are a few more specialized courses that might focus on microcontrollers or DSP platforms (I really wish I could have done the latter!). For myself I haven't had to do this since my undergrad days (which was on an 8051), although I'd first learned x86 and Z80 assembler when I was in high school.
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