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    From Vitus Jensen@2:2474/424.1 to David Noon on Tue May 29 01:02:44 2001
    Moin David!

    26.05.2001, David Noon wrote a message to Vitus Jensen:

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

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

    I have the Intel books on i486, Pentium, Pentium Pro and MMX (Messmer doesn't cover MMX, as his book is a little older). These are quite a
    handy reference, but Messmer's book makes better reading if one needs
    to devour an entire chapter. Perhaps Messmer has updated his book to
    cover P-II and P-III hardware, which would be very nice, as he would
    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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  • From David Noon@2:257/609.5 to Vitus Jensen on Sat May 26 02:09:24 2001
    Hi Vitus,

    Replying to a message of Vitus Jensen to Lee Aroner:

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

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

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

    Regards

    Dave
    <Team PL/I>

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