title: Literals VS Immediate Operands
body: <p>In the systems software course that I have this semester, we are being taught assemblers and other system software. While reading across the course I came across the topic of <strong>LITERALS</strong>.</p>
  
  <p>There was a comparison between literals and immediate operands that said that the only difference between them is that literals are not assembled as a part of the instruction, whereas immediate operands are.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Why must we use literals if we can use immediate operands? What is it that makes them different? In other words in when to use literals and when to use immediate operands?</strong></p>