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 ...

What if you could strip away the layers of abstraction that operating systems impose and interact directly with your computer’s hardware? Imagine crafting a program where every instruction is executed ...

<B>CUSP - Carleton's Utterly Simple Processor</B> - A fictitious cpu with its own fictictious instruction set used to teach low-level (assembly language) programming (University of Carlton, Ottowa, ...