mov ah, 0x0e ; tty mode mov bp, 0x8000 ; this is an address far away from 0x7c00 so that we don't get overwritten mov sp, bp ; if the stack is empty then sp points to bp push 'A' push 'B' push 'C' ; to show how the stack grows downwards mov al, [0x7ffe] ; 0x8000 - 2 int 0x10 ; however, don't try to access [0x8000] now, because it won't work ; you can only access the stack top so, at this point, only 0x7ffe (look above) mov al, [0x8000] int 0x10 ; recover our characters using the standard procedure: 'pop' ; We can only pop full words so we need an auxiliary register to manipulate ; the lower byte pop bx mov al, bl int 0x10 ; prints C pop bx mov al, bl int 0x10 ; prints B pop bx mov al, bl int 0x10 ; prints A ; data that has been pop'd from the stack is garbage now mov al, [0x8000] int 0x10 jmp $ times 510-($-$$) db 0 dw 0xaa55