CSc 3210 Computer Organization and Programming
Fall Quarter 1998
Programming Assignment #0 (Due: 9 September 1998, Wednesday)

Assignment Objectives:

1. To become familiar with Turbo Assembler and Turbo Debugger.
2. To compare a program written in a higher level language with a similar one written in assembly language.

Problem Description:

1. Create the following program on disk. Assemble, link and run it on your computer using the following commands:

     a:\>tasm /zi /l hello
     a:\>tlink /v hello
     a:\>td hello
   

   where hello.asm is the name of the file containing the program.

   ;--------------------------------------------
   page 60,132
   title Hello World Program
   .model small
   
   ;----Stack Segment---------------------------
   .stack 100h
   
   ;----Data Segment----------------------------
   .data
   hello_message db 'Hello, World!',0dh,0ah,'$'
   
   ;----Code Segment----------------------------
   .code
   
   main proc far
     mov   ax,@data
     mov   ds,ax
   
     mov   ah,9
     mov   dx,offset hello_message
     int   21h
   
     mov   ax,4c00h
     int   21h
   main endp
   
     end main
   ;--------------------------------------------
   

2. Write a program in Pascal or C or any other high-level language to print the string "Hello, World!" to the screen on a separate line. Compile, link and run this program.
3. Observe the size of the .EXE files produced by the compiler and the assembler.

Submission Instructions: Submit listing files for the assembly and high-level programs. Also submit a directory listing containing both the .EXE files along with the file sizes.