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J. BartlettLearn to Program with Assemblyhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7437-8_30

Going to an Even Lower Level

Jonathan Bartlett1  
(1)
Tulsa, OK, USA
 

This book has been focused on assembly language programming. For most computer programmers, assembly language is really the lowest-level language they will ever need to deal with. Nonetheless, for those interested in going deeper, here we will give a small taste of what is beneath.

K.1 Instruction Formats

Remember that, in computers, everything is stored as a number. Everything. That includes the instructions that operate the computer. When you assemble your files, it is converting the operations you give (often ...

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