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Title: Rather outdated book for beginners only
Review: If you know anything about assembly programming (for Intel or other CPUs) skip this book. It spends entire chapters covering very basic stuff (binary/octal/hex numbers etc).A large part of the book explains the difference between 8086, 80286, and 80386+ CPUs, and entire chapters deals with the the old 16-bit memory model and the strange segmented segmented memory model from 80286. Most examples are in 16-bit mode. Interesting maybe, but fairly useless in the year 2000, given that 80368 through Pentium-4 all are 32-bit CPUs.The "Programming for Linux" chapter is actually decent, but it is only 50 pages or so at the very end.
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