CSC103 Lab 2

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In this lab you will program at the lowest level of programmation: at the assembly language level. You will write small programs in assembly, and see how the programs correspond to numbers that are stored in memory. Some numbers represent instructions, some numbers represent data. But everything in memory is a number! That's a very important concept of CSC103!

Part 1: Starting the simulator

  • Go to the applet page for the class. Click on

CSC103 Launch xComputer.png

  • The processor simulator will pop up.

CSC103 Annotated Simulator.png

The purple part represents what is inside the processor, while the blue part represents the memory. Remember what they look like from the recent lab:


Processor   Memory

CSC103 Pentium.jpg

 

CSC103 SIMM Memory.jpg