IBM PC Assembly Language and Programming 5E

Appropriate for undergraduate courses in Assembly Language Programming.

Abel has designed the text to serve as both tutorial and reference, covering a full range of programming levels so as to learn assembly language programming. Coverage starts from scratch, discussing the simpler aspects of the hardware and the language, then introduces technical details and instructions as they are needed.

Table of Contents
(NOTE: All chapters except 24, 25, and 26 begin with an Introduction and conclude with Key Points and Review Questions and Exercises.)
I. FUNDAMENTALS OF PC HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE.
1. Basic Features of PC Hardware.
2. Instruction Addressing and Execution.
3. Examining Computer Memory and Executing Instructions.
II. FUNDAMENTALS OF ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE.
4. Requirements for Coding in Assembly Language.
5. Assembling, Linking, and Executing Programs.
6. Symbolic Instructions and Addressing.
7. Program Logic and Control.
III. VIDEO AND KEYBOARD OPERATIONS.
8. Introduction to Video and Keyboard Processing.
9. Video Systems.
10. Keyboard Operations.
IV. DATA MANIPULATION.
11. Processing String Data.
12. Arithmetic I: Processing Binary Data.
13. Arithmetic II: Processing ASCII and BCD Data.
14. Defining and Processing Tables.
V. ADVANCED INPUT/OUTPUT.
15. Facilities for Using the Mouse.
16. Disk Storage I: Organization.
17. Disk Storage II: Writing and Reading Files.
18. Disk Storage III: INT 21H Functions for Support Disks and Files.
19. Disk Storage IV: INT 13H Disk Functions.
20. Facilities for Printing.
VI. SPECIAL TOPICS.
21. Defining and Using Macros.
22. Linking to Subprograms.
23. Program Loading and Overlays.
VII. REFERENCE CHAPTERS.
24. BIOS Data Areas, Interrupts, and Ports.
25. Operators and Directives.
26. The PC Instruction Set.
Appendices.
Index.