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revolution 02 Apr 2009, 17:45
All PCs today (i.e. last few years) are at a minimum Pentium 4 (or the equivalent AMD version). So yes you have a 386 style CPU.
64bit is still new on the scene so that is less guaranteed for you. But you also need a 64bit OS to take advantage of it else you get stuck in 32bit land. |
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iceman90289 02 Apr 2009, 17:50
hehehe. my computer was made in 2002...
as far as 32 bit programs on a 64 bit machine goes, im fine with that for the time being. i dont plan on making anything on a 64 bit platform for a while... thanks for your reply. |
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revolution 02 Apr 2009, 17:55
As for syntaxes, CPUs don't read assembly, they all read the binary executables. So you are free to choose whatever assembler you like and all the CPUs will be able to run the resultant .exe file without problem.
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iceman90289 02 Apr 2009, 21:27
ah okay. now i was looking at the documentation section of this website and saw a tutorial.pdf file. Is there a newer release of it somewhere? Or another pdf that covers FASM syntax?
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revolution 03 Apr 2009, 06:44
The fasm download has fasm.pdf included (the latest is 5-Aug-2007) which shows most of the fasm syntax.
Don't forget to look at the examples that are in the zip file also. That should get you started quite quickly. |
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03 Apr 2009, 06:44 |
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Azu 03 Apr 2009, 07:58
iceman90289 wrote: So i want to learn asm (very badly)... and i understand that the syntax is different depending on your processor. How do i know if my processor is the 8086 or i386? Im guesing i386 because there is a folder called i386 on my hardrive... If it's 80386, it will be able to use these (and everything before them as well). iceman90289 wrote: so which syntax would i want to look into? Is there a syntax thats understood by all 32bit (and maybe even 64bit) processors? iceman90289 wrote: also, is high level assembly a high level language? or does that just imply the use of macroinstructions and such? HLA greatly resembles HLLs.. see this hello world for example Code: program helloWorld; #include("stdlib.hhf") begin helloWorld; stdout.put( "Hello World" nl ); end helloWorld; It's not really, though. The similarities are mainly cosmetic. For the most part it will have the same pros and cons of other assembly languages, not the ones of high level languages.. revolution wrote: 64bit is still new on the scene so that is less guaranteed for you. |
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03 Apr 2009, 07:58 |
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revolution 03 Apr 2009, 08:13
Azu wrote: Really? I've used XP 64 since around 2005 and never had any problems with it. What's so new?? I don't think anyone big even MAKES 32bit CPUs anymore.. and all the major OSs released in the last half decade have native 64bit versions.. hell, there have been 64bit *nix OSs back at least as far as 1994, and 64bit supercomputers since the early 1960s! |
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03 Apr 2009, 08:13 |
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Azu 03 Apr 2009, 08:20
revolution wrote: Yeah, really, there are still a lot of working CPUs without 64bit support. The OP stated that the system used is from 2002 so that won't have 64bit support. revolution wrote: All of my current PCs and laptops do not support 64bit, with the latest bought in 2006 with a Core Duo processor (no 64bit in that). 
I guess Intel IS usually late with the big things (x86 64bit, dual core, onchip memory controllers, etc)... |
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03 Apr 2009, 08:20 |
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DOS386 05 Apr 2009, 03:28
iceman90289 wrote: So i want to learn asm (very badly)... and i understand that the syntax is different depending on your processor. NO. Quote: How do i know if my processor is the 8086 or i386? 1. Open your PC and look or 2. Some CPUID program Quote: Im guesing i386 because there is a folder called i386 on my hardrive... Have Windoze XP ? It doesn't run on 80386, and even less on 8086
Quote: hehehe. my computer was made in 2002... Then you probably have Pentium 3 or Pentium 4-xxx32 Quote: so which syntax would i want to look into? No syntax. For DOS you will start with 8086, and later maybe look into 80386 and more (Pentium/MMX/SSE). For XP, you will start with 80386 manuals. |
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rugxulo 14 Apr 2009, 20:14
Azu wrote:
I think x86-64 wasn't even introduced except in 2003 (Opteron servers). Quote:
I don't know why Intel did that. Supposedly they implemented x86-64 in 2004 in some of their Xeon servers, but home users didn't get it until mid 2006 or so (Core 2). |
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