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From: jans@mako.UUCP (Jan Steinman)
Newsgroups: net.micro.68k
Subject: Re: what are the best 68k books?
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Date: Fri, 8-Mar-85 16:31:32 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar  8 16:31:32 1985
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Summary: 

In article <1944@sdcc6.UUCP> ix408@sdcc6.UUCP (Cris Rys) writes:
>... what in your opinions are the best books to read in order to learn 68000.
>Also what is the standard manual for the 68000?

The 68000 Bible: "M68000 16/32-Bit Microprocessor Programmer's Reference
Manual, Fourth Edition".  Also covers M68008 and M68010.  I prefer the Third
Edition, sans the newer chips, but it may be out of print.  Contact a local
Motorola distributer, such as Schweber or Hamilton-Avnet and be prepared to
wait if you're an individual, or if you're employed by a sizable company which
uses Motorola parts, talk to your purchasing department -- they can probably
get you one free.

>You might give me a first book to read and then a second one which goes more
>in depth.

As for more depth, my favorite is "68000 Assembly Language Programming",
Leventhal, et. al, McGraw-Hill, 1981.  Lots of diagrams, with about 1/2 page
ENGLISH! describing each instruction.  About %80 of the book is devoted to
assembly language techniques, using M68000 code sequences as examples, with
the other 20% describing the instruction set.  Their examples are generally
not very good assembly language style (non-reentrant, non-position-
independent, embedded literals and absolute addresses, etc.) but the 20% of
the book describing the instruction set is quite good.
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