What does ORG Assembly Instruction do?

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can anyone give me a comprehensive description about ORG directive?
When and why is it used in assembly written applications?

Using Nasm on x86 or AMD64.

nasm directive x86 assembly
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ORG means origin ORG is used for specific addressing in microprocessor and microcontroller programming.

For example:

.org 0000H

This means we want to start our program from the 0000H address.

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ORG xxxx ORG is not an assembly language instruction; it is an assembler directive instruction. It tells the assembler that the instruction from here onwards should be placed at location starting xxxx

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