>Correct.
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>My first assembler course was on IBM 8088 Assembler Language Programming (I still have the book of that title).
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>Technically, I think the language was called "assembly" and the software that build .obj files was the "assembler". But alas, I turn 46 in less than 2 weeks and haven't written a drop of assembly code since 1995, and therefore don't care any longer. :)
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>I think I had that book as well. Jeff Duntemann (of Turbo Technix fame) wrote a great book on assembly in 1992. I wish he'd written it about 4 years prior. He was a great author.
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>I still get a room full of laughs when I joke that Microsoft almost released a Visual Assembler product (where you drag and drop register values) :)

I wouldn't be suprised if IBM tossed that idea around when they were trying to keep from being made obsolete by Microsoft.

The book I had must have been written in the very early '80s. I think I took the course in 1984. It was a pretty useful course just to learn the ins and outs of the processor architecture.