1.1. 1.1 Chapter Overview
This chapter is a "quick-start" chapter that lets you start writing basic assembly language programs as rapidly as possible. This chapter:
Presents the basic syntax of an HLA (High Level Assembly) program
Introduces you to the Intel CPU architecture
Provides a handful of data declarations, machine instructions, and high level control statements
Describes some utility routines you can call in the HLA Standard Library
Shows you how to write some simple assembly language programs
By the conclusion of this chapter, you should understand the basic syntax of an HLA program and should understand the prerequisites that are needed to start learning new assembly language features in the chapters that follow.
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