IBM PC Assembly Language and Programming (5th Edition)

(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.

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.