Assembler Language Programming, Systems/360 and 370

By Sharon K. Tuggle

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0574191607
• ISBN13: 9780574191601
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Sra
• Weight: 2.75 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Good getting started book, even in 2008

I cut my teeth on this book back in 1984. I still have a copy and refer to it every now and then. It's a very good book for learning the basics of assembler language programming on IBM and IBM-compatible mainframes. It starts out with an Intro to Computers and ends up with Virtual Storage concepts. In the middle, it introduces binary, floating point and packed decimal instructions, program linkage, data structures and branching. It goes into usage of the Assembler, job control language, and even some dumps and debugging. The subset of the instruction set it teaches is the core set of instructions still used every day. Many architectural aspects related to assembler programming have changed since this book was published, but the material is still pertinent and presented well.

Solid introductory book on IBM mainframe assembler.

I taught assembler for about ten years using several texts and this was my favorite [until I wrote my own]. The author's coverage of floating point arithmetic is the best I've seen. Professional programmers will find the operating system interface coverage thin, but that is common to almost all the competing texts.