Assembly Language for Intel-based Computers

Book excerpt: 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.