Here is a wonderful resource to help you understand the proper use of FPU instructions:

http://webster.cs.ucr.edu/AoA/Windows/HTML/RealArithmetic.html#998833

You can find tutorials and examples here:

The Operating System Resource Center
http://www.nondot.org/sabre/os/articles

OS FAQ Wiki
http://www.osdev.org/osfaq2/

Nathan.

Adding this link to a blog which starts an interesting tutorial using NASM on a Linux platform.

http://jojodi.com/?p=107

Nathan.

It is about time we start building a Sticky in this forum listing some resources so the newbies will have an easier time finding the information they need. I will start with these valuable links:
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The "masm32" package http://www.masm32.com/ is a collection of library files, examples, etc, plus "ml.exe" and related tools. The installer written for...