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Posted: **Thu Jan 06, 2005 12:00 am**

Hi people,

I've a little question about the stack,

mov ax,09BFFF
mov ss, ax
mov sp, 0x400

Why does 400 mean 1024 bytes?
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Posted: **Thu Jan 06, 2005 12:00 am**

0x400 means 400 in the hexadecimal system. You can easily convert it to the decimal system: 4*16^2 + 0*16^1 + 0*16^0 = 1024 (dec)

Setting up the stack