I have always laughed at people who keep multitools–those modern Swiss army knives–in their toolbox. To me, the whole premise of a multitool is that they keep me from going to the toolbox. If I’ve got ...

The history of computing could arguably be divided into three eras: that of mainframes, minicomputers, and microcomputers. Minicomputers provided an important bridge between the first mainframes and ...

Once we’ve built a computer, the next step is to develop an assembly language and then an assembler that can assemble our programs. In my previous column, we introduced the concept of the big-endian ...

I've got an 8085 assembly programming assignment due and I'm not sure where to begin.<BR><BR>Essentially, I am suposed to take in an input sentence. Then, I have to insert another input string at a ...

Some time ago, a desire to familiarize myself with Microchip PIC24/dsPIC assembler language programming coincided with digging out the listing for a FORTH programming language interpreter/compiler I ...