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Programming for Microprocessors
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Programming for Microprocessors

by Andrew Colin
May 2014
Beginner to intermediate
216 pages
8h 42m
English
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• Finally, when the program is believed correct, the binary version is
burned into read-only memory, which is then installed in the system
being built.
The time for one cycle of this process depends crucially on the equip-
ment available. If the source text is on a floppy disk, it can be corrected
very quickly by an 'editor' program. Cards are also fast to alter, but a
program on paper tape is slow to edit as the tape has to be copied from
beginning to end.
The compilation can also be done in three ways:
• On a terminal linked to a remote bureau computer through a tele-
type.
This is slow and very expensive.
• On a loca ...
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