IBM PC Assembly Language and Programming - Hardcover

Peter Abel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0131246038 ISBN 13: 9780131246034

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1995

Synopsis

This third edition includes major revision of chapters on disk organization and processing. More front-end explanations, full details on use of mouse programming, and expanded material on DOS interrupts are also included. Updated for latest version of DOS and Microsoft Assembler.

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0131246038
• ISBN 13: 9780131246034
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 592