; Hello World Program in 16-bit Assembly
; This code is intended to run on a DOS system.

.model small
.stack 100h

.data
helloMessage db 'Hello, World!$'

.code
start:
    ; Initialize the data segment
    mov ax, @data
    mov ds, ax

    ; Display the message
    mov ah, 09h ; AH = 09h for displaying a string in DOS
    lea dx, helloMessage ; Load the address of the message into DX
    int 21h ; Call DOS interrupt

    ; Terminate the program
    mov ax, 4C00h ; Terminate program
    int 21h

end start