;;Welcome.asm
title Welcome

comment ~ *****************
	  Name:		<YOUR NAME GOES HERE>
          SSN:		<YOUR SSN GOES HERE>
          Section:	<YOUR CLASS SECTION NUMBER>
          Date:		<THE DATE THE PROGRAM IS TURNED IN>
          Assignment:	<THE ASSIGNMENT NUMBER>

          Description:
          This program displays a welcome message to standard out.
        ~ *****************

;constants

CR equ 0dh						;CR is carraige return and is value 13
LF equ 0Ah						;LF is line feed and is value 10

.nolist
include bios.inc
.list
.model small
.486
.stack 100h
.dosseg

.data							;begin the data segment
    message db LF,CR,LF,"Welcome to COSC 2410"
    len_of_msg equ $ - message 				;take the current memory address
			       				;and delete the memory address
			       				;of the variable message

.code 							;begin the code segment
    main proc						
	.startup					;start the main procedure
	    @Cls					;clear the screen
	    @SetCsrPos 33, 13				;set the cursor position
	    mov ah, 040h				;move 040h into the high part of register AX
	    mov bx, 1					;move 1 into register BX
	    mov cx, len_of_msg				;move the length of the message into register CX
	    mov dx, OFFSET message			;move the address of the variable message into DX
	    int 21h					;make a call to DOS to display the string
	.exit						;end the main procedure
    main endp
end