assmeblers and disassemblers

[Mike Dillon]

On books: I think going to a used book store with some early 80's
texts on the subject would be a good place to start with out spending 
 alot of $. Something on basic microprocessors and microprocessor interfacing
from that era will give you a good start. The newer texts won't be any
better but will have more stuff on RISC instruction sets and parallel
execution units that you don't need to know about for programming most
of the controllers that have been discused on the list. Back in the 80's
people built competitive home computers of their own design based on 
Z-80's , 6502 .. There was alot of "how to" books written at that time
that would be great for getting the basics, and most of the microcontrollers
are just re-hacks of those old processors with added features for controll
aplications. Some of the book were real dogs ,but hey at 10 cents on the 
dollar you can look though quite a few of them. 

Mike D.


> From diy_efi-owner at esl.eng.ohio-state.edu Thu Sep 24 15:37 CDT 1998
> From: goflo at pacbell.net
> 
> MrCad472 at aol.com wrote:
> > 
> >    I have the idea now of what the assemblers and disassemblers are, but now I
> > guess I just need to learn how these computers actually operate, how to change
> > the programming, etc. Is there somewhere I can get a book on this? Any help
> > would be appreciated.
> 
> You need to identify the processor your ECU uses, and then obtain the
> appropriate data books & software. 
> "Microcomputer Primer", by Mitchell Waite is good, but out of print.
> Perhaps others can recommend something.
> 
> Regards, Jack
> 
>