Hi,I'm new to assembly but i cannot figure this out

NEG BYTE [BX] ; Negates byte quantity at DS:BX
NEG WORD [DI] ; Negates word quantity at DS:BX

first line I understand but how did he get BX register in second line?!
thanks in advance

hi operator,

you are right! I never noticed that before. Could simply be a trick for the CPU-manufacturer to find out, if just a byte or a whole word is to be changed.

Don't take programming-life too seriously. You'll find so many just remarkably funny thinks especially when programming assembly.

Bye
Simon

He probably made a mistake [DI] defaults to DS,
so it should have been DS : DI

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