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Final Exam - Fall 2001
This is a list of topics that may be covered on the Final Exam,
with each topic followed by a partial list of homework questions and/or Web pages that
are related to the topic. This list is not completely exhaustive; it merely
indicates that the given topics are candidates for being on the exam.
Basic Hexadecimal and Binary arithmetic and conversions;
effects of arithmetic on the four Standard Flags
- Set B Interpretation of Bit patterns: Hexadecimal, unsigned binary
to decimal,
sign+magnitude, excess-127, two's complement, ASCII, EBCDIC
- Set B and C The General Computer and/or Intel Instruction Cycle (not the LMC cycle!)
- F1,2,9,12,13,15
- Web "The General Computer Model", trace.htm
link on bottom of Web "IBM PC Architecture III" -
Basic Intel Machine Architecture, Segment/Offset Addressing, and
Registers, Real Addresses, address aliases
- F3,F8,G1,2,4,5
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Simple Intel Assembler Programming, including ASM syntax
for a .COM format program
- G13,15,17
- *.asm
examples on Web
- Project 3
- Web "MASM Progamming I" (basic .COM format and syntax)
.com vs. .exe program structure differences
- G17
- Web "MASM Programming I"
- ".com vs. .exe" summary web page Interrupt (INT) execution and tracing on Intel hardware
- F19,21,22, G4,5
- Web "Interrupts"
- Web "IBM PC Architecture
III" (and links on page bottom) -
Intel DEBUG DUMP analysis (program execution tracing)
- D1,2,3,4, Web "IBM PC Architecture III" (and links on page bottom)
Disk DUMP Analysis: Boot Sector, Clusters, Directory entries,
Attributes, C/H/S, FAT, inodes
- Project 4
- H2,3,4,5,6 Bank-switched memory and Virtual Memory
- I1,2,3
There is no LMC programming on the final exam. There are
no floating-point questions. Questions relating to the Boot Sector or to
DOS Directory entries will have a table of offsets provided on the exam - you
don't have to memorize where all the bits lie. No formulas are provided;
you must remember them.
Calculators are permitted during the final exam;
but, phones, pagers, and hats are not. (I'm not making this up.)
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