Debug tutor

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		   Integrated Personal Computers Project
			    Communications Group
		   Communications and Data Base Division
				Session C316

  This talk is for people who are just getting started with the PC MACRO
Assembler.  Maybe you are just contemplating doing some coding in assembler,
maybe you have tried it with mixed success.  If you are here to get aimed in
the right direction, to get off to a good start with the assembler, then you
have come for the right reason.  I can't promise you'll get what you want, but
I'll do my best.

  On the other hand, if you have already turned out some working assembler
code, then this talk is likely to be on the elementary side for you.  If you
want to review a few basics and have no where else pressing to go, then by all
means stay.

  Why Learn Assembler?

  The reasons for LEARNING assembler are not the same as the reasons for USING
it in a particular application.  But, we have to start with some of the reasons
for using it and then I think the reasons for learning it will become clear.

  First, let's dispose of a bad reason for using it.  Don't use it just because
you think it is going to execute faster.  A particular sequence of ordinary
bread-and-butter computations written in PASCAL, C, FORTRAN, or compiled BASIC
can do the job just about as fast as the same algorithm coded in assembler.  Of
course, interpretive BASIC is slower, but if you have a BASIC application which
runs too slow you probably want to try compiling it before you think too much
about translating parts of it to another language.

  On the other hand, high level languages do tend to isolate you from the
machine.  That is both their strength and their weakness.  Usually, when
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