Ch. 9 Keyterms

For introduction to programming

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What determines the location of an operand?

Addressing Mode

What contains a memory address or a numeric value that is used with and is determined by the directive?

Argument Field

The act of converting the source program into the machine language that the computer understands is called?

Assembling

A compromise between the people-oriented high-level languages and the computer oriented machine-level language is what?

Assembly Language Programming

When intel processors always put the lower order byte in the lower memory your...

Byte Swapping

Begins with a semicolon and ends with a carriage.

Comment Field

Used to describe a statement in the program to make a program easier to understand.

Comments

To translate instruction statements into machine language you use...

Compilers

The microprocessor and the microcomputer system cannot be operated without a sequence of instructions known as this.

Computer Program

Allows you to examine internal registers to determine what is going on in the program.

DEBUG

In MOV CX,AX CX is this.

Destination Operand

A mnemonic shorthand for the assembler directive operation is the...

Directive Field

This is used to input a source code.

Editor

The original text editor that came with IBM DOS was called...

EDLIN

A method of outlining or mapping a problem is known as...

Flowcharting

What terminates the program?

Footer

Something that starts the program.

Header

The [blank] value of the word count.

Intermediate

Assigns a symbolic name to an assembly language instruction.

Label Field

Used to convert an assembled program to a form that can be moved around.

Linker Program

Used to repeat an operation or a sequence of instructions.

Looping

The language that a computer can directly understand.

Machine Language

Lets you write programs at the microprocessor understands but doesn't force you to memorize a set of numeric codes.

MACRO Assembler

When you add one additional AND instruction, setting all the outputs except Wsub3 to zero.

Masking Off Bits

Similar to the label field in the instruction statement.

Name Field

The machine language output.

Object Program

A mnemonic shorthand for an 8086/8088 microprocessor instruction.

Op-Code

Tells the MPU where to find the data to be operated on.

Operands

This checks objects existing outside a program.

Poll

Where the contents of the registered.

Source Operand

The assebmly language program is named this.

Source Program

Used in PUSH/POP.

Stack

A portion of a program that is used to perform a particular task.

Subroutine