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This is a most interesting book. It's positioned kind of halfway between the book on a programming language and the data book for the CPU. It contains a lot of information that the computer science classes don't bother to include. On the whole it is rather machine independent (hard to do in today's world where the Pentium class machines are so prevalent), so if you are working on a Power PC or an ARM chip the material here would still have value. <br><br>Having said that, the majority of people in the computer business today would waste their time reading this book. Today's "computer professional" works in Excel or Access, perhaps doing just a bit of programming to create a macro, or a little VBA to do something special. That a Hex 41 represents an A is of no value to them. Indeed most wouldn't even know what Hex means. <br><br>Those who want to go a deeper however, will find this book to be a great help. There are still a lot of programmers out there who are doing some kind of hardware driver to make a peripheral work with a system. Or they may be doing an embedded system of some kind, and here's the way to get started. <br><br>There is one complaint. In the definition of great code, it seems clear that Mr. Hyde like tight fast running code. With today's processors running at gigahertz speeds with scads of memory, an argument can be made that the size of the code or the number of cycles it takes is almost insignificant. But if your job is to run something in real time....
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