A Beginners Course In Assembly Language

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3eginner's

Course in L

by Hardin Brothers

he first computer Ianguag;e was asse:m. .. . bIy language, which subsr~tvres symbols that almost look Iike EngIish words for the 1's and zeros of the machine's "native" Ianguage. When you write in assembly language, you regularly bypass the applicarion software and communicate directly with the CPU, BIOS, and MS-DOS. By using assembly language, yo11 bogtn to understand what is rcally happening inside thecompu~er. Assembly language has other benefits, which are well known to professional programmers. It is fast-up to 100 rimes faster than Basic. It uses memory more eHicienrly than high-revel languages, and it is usually the best language for controlling the compute