From: John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...>
Date: 2007-09-27T23:41:19+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Confession: I never did ASM


On Sep 27, 2007, at 1:21 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

> julik wrote:
>> I would love to join the recently started confession fest.
>>
>> I've got a similar problem as Jay, but in a totally different domain.
>> Having started as a script kiddo - what kind of book can introduce  
>> me in
>> the beautiful but-oh-so-scary world of things like bit shifts, number
>> representations, registers and that 0xF of them all, so that I can  
>> (not
>> too urgently) start in C with at least some level of self- 
>> confidence and
>> understanding?
>>
>> Is there some kind of book like "Everything you should know about the
>> Von Neumann machine to get by unscathed without brain damage" or so?
>> Except Donald Knuth because I also have a day job to fulfill :-)
>>
>>
>>
>>
> Straight from the horse's mouth:
>
> http://www.cs.unc.edu/~adyilie/comp265/vonNeumann.html
>
> :) :) :)
>
> And no, I never met Von Neumann but I *did* write software for an
> original Von Neumann machine -- ILLIAC I :).
>
WOW, that's some classically fluffed up academic writing...