An alien incursion...or nanotechnology run amuck? What is the bizarre, unearthly structure building itself on the far side of the Moon? Is it an invasion...or first contact? Epic science fiction and hard science combine in a gripping thriller. Nebula Award nominee.

The most comprehensive treatment of advanced assembler programming ever published, this book presents a way of programming that involves intuitive, right-brain thinking. Also probes hardware aspects that affect code performance and compares programming techniques.

Teaches Concepts for the User Seeking an Understanding of the Functions Needed to "Translate" Programs for Computer Execution

Exploring the design and implementation of assemblers and loaders, this volume describes such important concepts as absolute and relocatable object files, assembler features, the listing file, the properties of assemblers and loaders, and three special assembler types.