Course Title: Computer Architecture and Assembly Language Programming (CS401)
Lecture No. 3: Introduction to Assembly Language
	Introduction	Intel iapx88 Architecture	History	Register Architecture
	General Registers (AX, BX, CX and DX)	Index Registers (SI and DI)	Instruction Pointer	Stack Pointer
	Base Pointer	Flags Register	Segment Registers (CS, DS, SS and ES)	Our First Program
	English Language Version	Assembly Language Version	Assembler, Linker and Debugger
Introduction
The architecture of a processor means the organization and functionalities of the registers it contains and the instructions that are valid on the processor. In this lecture the register architecture of 8088 will be discussed in detail.
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