8086 Microprocessor: Programming and Interfacing the PC [Paperback]

Kenneth Ayala (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0314012427 | ISBN-13: 978-0314012425 | Publication Date: January 1, 1995 | Edition: 1

Intended for the beginning programming student taking the first course on the 8086, a 16-bit microprocessor manufactured by Intel. It serves as a campanion text to Ayala's The 8051 Microcontroller: Architecture, Programming, and Applications, 2nd (1997). The text has a software programming emphasis and focuses on assembly language geared to IBM PCs. Digital logic design or basic binary fundamentals are prerequisites, but no prior study of computers or assembly language is necessary.

Product Details

• Paperback: 698 pages
• Publisher: Delmar Cengage Learning; 1 edition (January 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0314012427
• ISBN-13: 978-0314012425
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 8.8 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,013,051 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars worst written text book i've ever been forced to study by, September 17, 2001

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This review is from: 8086 Microprocessor: Programming and Interfacing the PC (Paperback)

This book is horrible. Don't buy it. I'm serious. Not only is it vague, but it also uses pages and pages of text to say things that could be explained ever so much more simply. for instance, when it tells us how to convert from binary, decimal, or hex to packed or unpacked BCD, it gives us a two page or so length description, confusing the reader and numbing the brain. there are frustrating instances of poor grammer and outright non-english _everywhere_ in the text. both the editor and the writer and everyone else who had anything to do with publishing this book obviously did it for cash and not for the sake of teaching people. I'll leave off with this quote, which you can find on page 112, under the heading of 8086 addressing modes;

"A CPU design that has many different types of addressing modes is considered to be commercially desirable because high level languages --such as BASIC, C and Pascal-- can run very quickly and efficiently on which talented CPUs."

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Introduction to 80x86 Architecture & Assembler Programming, April 11, 2008

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aardvaark (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 8086 Microprocessor: Programming and Interfacing the PC (Paperback)

I love this book. It is a Great Introduction to 80x86 Architecture & Assembler Programming. Also the A86/D86 Software is fantastic.

1.0 out of 5 stars Best way to describe this book is BRUTAL..., June 6, 2006

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Matt Kimbrell (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 8086 Microprocessor: Programming and Interfacing the PC (Paperback)

So, I am in my second class of assembly first was a basic overview of z80 6800 8080 and so on.. It was not bad fairly easy to understand and was written by Malvino and Brown. Now this class, I feel dumber for reading this book... have to admit I am only on chapter 8 but I had to go back to the Malvino Brown Digital Computer Electronics book just to get my head straight again. The review saying it took 2 pages just to review Hex to Dec is right on, but how about spending no time explaining counting bytes/bits, and examples that simply provide opcode not programs... terrible. I should not have to buy more books just to understand what this book is trying to say. I know assembly is not this tough. This book makes it tough.