IBM PC Assembly Language and Programming (5th Edition) - Hardcover

Abel, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 013030655X ISBN 13: 9780130306555

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2001

Synopsis

(Pearson Education) A guide for learning assembly language programming for IBM personal computers. Explains the elements of both the hardware and the language, providing the technical details needed to get the reader started. Offers new information on video components and video programming as well as several other subjects. Previous edition: c1998.

About this title

From the Publisher:

The primary focus of this book is to assist readers in learning assembly language programming. Abel has designed the text to serve as both tutorial and reference, asking students to read through each chapter, key the many program examples, convert them to executable modules, and execute them. Coverage starts from scratch, discussing the simpler aspects of the hardware and the language, then introduces instructions as they are needed.

From the Back Cover:

In the fifth edition of his successful text, IBM® PC Assembly Language and Programming, Peter Abel thoroughly covers a full range of programming levels. This revised edition is designed to assist the reader in learning assembly language programming. It introduces the simpler elements of the hardware and the language, and provides technical details and instruction as needed.

IBM® PC Assembly Language and Programming

Features

• The hardware components of the PC;
• Machine language code and hexadecimal format;
• The steps involved with assembling, linking, and executing programs;
• Writing programs in assembly language to handle the keyboard, screen and mouse, convert between data formats, perform table searches and sorts, handle disk operations, and more.
• Tracing machine execution as an aid in program debugging;
• Writing macro instructions to facilitate faster coding;
• Linking separately assembled programs into one executable program.

The fifth edition offers a variety of new material, including more details on video components and video operations, revised and additional program examples, more information about protected mode, stack usage, addressing modes, as well as array handling.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 013030655X
• ISBN 13: 9780130306555
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 540