Print the word size and endianness of the host machine.

See also: Variable size/Get

    .model small
    .stack 1024
 
    .data
 
UserRam BYTE 256 DUP (0)
 
    .code
start:
 
    mov ax,@data  ;assembler calculates this offset for us
    mov ds,ax     ;the 8086 can only load segment registers from other registers, not directly from immediate values.
 
    mov ax,@code
    mov es,ax     
 
    mov ax,3422h
    mov word ptr [ds:UserRam],ax
    mov bl, byte ptr [ds:UserRam]
    call doMonitor ;a routine that prints the contents of 
                   ;the 8086's registers to the screen
 
    mov ax,4C00h
    int 21h        ;return to MS-DOS
 
    end start