... 9.1 Bits is Bits (and Bytes is Bits) Assembly language is big on bits.Bits, after all, are what bytes are made of, and one essential assembly- language skill is building bytes and taking them ... part of assembly- language programming. What's most important is understanding your machine and your tools, and how everything fits together. Higher-level languages like Pascal and Modula-2 ... gang of eight bitwise AND operations on the 8 bits in AL and BL. Bit 0 of AL is ANDed with bit 0 of BL, bit 1 of AL is ANDed with bit 1 of BL, and file:///D|/Agent%20Folders /Assembly% 20Chap9%20Revised.htm...