IBM PC Assembly Language and Programming: International Edition - Softcover

Abel, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0138965315 ISBN 13: 9780138965310

Publisher: Pearson, 1997

Synopsis

This Fourth edition of this broad-based and comprehensive text covers all programming levels - from introductory through advanced. Both inexperienced readers and experienced programmers can learn and benefit. Appropriate for both two and four year schools. This revision retains the practical, hands on approach while and updating the text to include the latest changes in Assembly Language and Operating Systems.

About this title

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: Pearson
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0138965315
• ISBN 13: 9780138965310
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 606