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 ...