Presents features of Pentium architecture and key instructions. The book trains readers to understand hardware, machine-language code and hexagonal format, writing programs in assembly language, trace element execution, writing macro instructions and linking separately assembled programs into one.

The book presents both a tutorial and a reference on programming the IBM PC microcomputers in the assembler language and on related hardware and architectural issues of the IBM personal computers or IBM-compatible ones. Essentially no previous knowledge of any programming language or about PC architecture is required for this text. The author goes through all the relevant material, starting from the very basics and ending with more advanced topics concerning assembler language programming and the interaction with operating system, in sufficient extent and clarity of exposition.

Now updated to cover the latest assembler versions, with more code than ever, this bestselling classic is for every programmer who wants to build complete, full-scale assembly language programs. Includes disk containing complete chapter examples and full-fledged diskpatch program.

Crash course in computer numbering systems; Introduction to Assembly language programming; Using an Assembler; The 8088 instruction set; High-precision mathematics; Operating on data structures; Using the system resources; Graphics made easy; Let there be sound! Macros; Object libraries; Structured programming; 8087 math coprocessor.