PC Assembly Language | Search for a title, author or keyword | ||||||||
PC Assembly Language By Paul A. Carter. November 11, 2003. The purpose of this book is to give the reader a better understanding of how computers really work at a lower level than in programming languages like Pascal. By gaining a deeper understanding of how computers work, the reader can often be much more productive developing software in higher level languages such as C and C++. Learning to program in assembly language is an excellent way to achieve this goal. Other PC assembly language books still teach how to program the 8086 processor that the original PC used in 1980! The 8086 processor only supported real mode. In this mode, any program may address any memory or device in the computer. This mode is not suitable for a secure, multitasking operating system. This book instead discusses how to program the 80386 and later processors in protected mode ( the mode that Windows and Linux runs in ). This mode supports the features that modern operating systems expect, such as virtual memory and memory protection. This text makes use of Free/Open Source software: namely, the NASM assembler and the DJGPP C/C++ compiler. Both of these are available to download from the Internet. The text also discusses how to use NASM assembly code under the Linux operating system and with Borland’s and Microsoft’s C/C++ compilers under Windows. This guide is freely available in internet, while it is possible to download one PDF copy of it simply freely registering to scribd services.
|
|||||||||
PC Assembly Language | Disclaimer: this link points to content provided by other sites. |