This text is designed for students and professionals interested in learning the basics of operating systems, architecture, and programming in the context of a microprocessor. Kip Irvine concentrates on the combined Windows/MS-DOS operating system and covers 32-bit assembly language applications for Intel-based computers. The fourth edition discusses: Win32 programming, including the console API and a graphical application; expanded coverage of procedures, recursion, stack parameters, structures, and unions; boolean expressions, truth tables, and flowcharts; basic string handling, sorting and searching algorithms; bit-mapped graphics in both Real and Protected modes; IEEE floating-point binary representation; virtual machine architecture; IA-32 Protected mode segmentation and paging; introductory explanations of the instruction execution cycle, memory I/O, multitasking, pipelining, and superscalar architecture; and disk fundamentals, including disk geometry, FAT32 and NTFS file structures.

This widely used, fully updated assembly language book provides basic information for the beginning programmer interested in computer architecture, operating systems, hardware manipulation, and compiler writing.Uses the Intel IA-32 processor family as its base, showing how to program for Windows and DOS. Is written in a clear and straightforward manner for high readability. Includes a companion CD-ROM with all sample programs, and Microsoftreg; Macro Assembler Version 8, along with an extensive companion Website maintained by the author. Covers machine architecture, processor architecture, assembly language fundamentals, data transfer, addressing and arithmetic, procedures, conditional processing, integer arithmetic, strings and arrays, structures and macros, 32-bit Windows programming, language interface, disk fundamentals, BIOS-level programming, MS-DOS programming, floating-point programming, and IA-32 instruction encoding.For embedded systems programmers and engineers, communication specialists, game programmers, and graphics programmers.

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Ideal for undergraduate courses in computer organization, assembly language programming, and computer architecture, An Assembly Language Introduction to Computer Architecture: Using the Intel Pentium introduces students to the fundamentals of computer architecture from a programmer's perspective by teaching them assembly language, the interface between hardware and software. Designed for students in computer science and engineering who have taken one high-level language programming course, it uses a top-down approach, introducing an abstract (registerless) assembly language first. This approach enables students to build on previous knowledge and allows them to write programs from the beginning of the course. Topics covered include basic computer organization, data representation, data structures, the assembly process, exception handling, and more. Examples are developed using the very popular Intel Pentium architecture; however, the concepts covered are valid with any system. This accessible text is supplemented with a helpful website (http: //www.cs.wisc.edu/ smoler/x86text.html) that contains macros to use with programming tools, lecture notes to accompany the text, sample programs, and other useful items.