On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 13:57:03 +0100 (BST), Dinesh Ahuja <mdlinux7@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks a lot for explaining this and for your > guidance. That's ok. I've done nothing much really - I feel the same as you when I'm working with some of guys in my office who've been doing this stuff since before I was born :-). > Jon, could you please suggest me a book on assembly > language as that will help me to play with bits and > bytes . I think there's a combination of route in to this. I had a fscked up entry myself, but suggest that CA:AQA from my last mail is probably a good starting up. Whatever Bill Joy (one of the good guys at Sun) says is worth listening to, and he says this is a good book. Other than that books on PICs and other hacking stuff are good - The Quntissential PIC Microcontroller is a good book for discussing a wealth of issues that are never taught even to computer scientists - like how FETs and gates are actually implemented in silicon. Jon. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/