May 2024
Intermediate to advanced
889 pages
30h 8m
English
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The X 86 Microprocessors: Architecture, Programming and Interfacing (8086 to Pentium) 2nd Edition by Pearson
by Lyla B. Das
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BASICS OF COMPUTER SYSTEMS 0-13
0.3 | Computer Languages
0.3.1 | Machine Language, Assembly Language and High Level Language
The computer is just a dumb piece of equipment unless we are able to make it work for
us. For that, we must be able to ‘program’ it, so that it will perform the tasks we assign
it. Programming a computer entails the use of a language that the computer understands.
The language native to computers is ‘machine language’, which consists of binary ones
and zeros. The computer knows this language, and the series of ones and zeros fed to
it are ‘operation codes’ for it, which tells it what action is to be performed. Thus, there
is one binary code for addition and another one for subtraction. These operation codes
are called ...
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