Presents the organization and operation of a conventional computer, including principal instruction types, data representation, addressing modes, program control, I/O, assembly language programming, ...

Max, I enjoyed reading your article. Interestingly, no one commented on microcode, which is “bare metal” programming. I learned about this in the mid-80's while microcode programming an Adage graphics ...

If you program in C, you probably don’t care much or even think about it. But do you know ARM assembly language? Well, if you look at it one way, it can’t be too hard.

A programming language that is one step away from machine language. Each assembly language statement is translated into a machine instruction by the assembler. Programmers must be well versed in ...