Subj : Intel hardware books
To   : David Noon
From : Vitus Jensen
Date : Tue May 29 2001 01:02 am

Moin David!

26.05.2001, David Noon wrote a message to Vitus Jensen:

 VJ>> I would like to have an Intel or AMD manual about the i386 because
 VJ>> this stuff IMHO is best explained by the processor vendor but I have
 VJ>> only a bad german short reference.  One of these days I should
 VJ>> "lend" one from the library...

 DN> You could try "The Indispensable Pentium Book" by Hans-Peter Messmer.
 DN> [Available in German too, of course.] He wrote about 4 pages on call
 DN> gates and ring gates in the 1995 edition I have, ISBN  0-201-87727-9.

 DN> I have the Intel books on i486, Pentium, Pentium Pro and MMX (Messmer
 DN> doesn't cover MMX, as his book is a little older). These are quite a
 DN> handy reference, but Messmer's book makes better reading if one needs
 DN> to devour an entire chapter. Perhaps Messmer has updated his book to
 DN> cover P-II and P-III hardware, which would be very nice, as he would
 DN> cover MMX and SSE[2].

Well, I don't need this newer stuff like MMX and SSE.  It's even so that a 
work, where I do most of my assembler programming, I only need 8086 as we use a 
NEC V40.
So, 80386 is enough and I get the book Murray recommended.

Bye,
   Vitus

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