# Author:	Eric Walkingshaw
# Date:		Jan 18, 2013
# Description:	A simple hello world program!

.data			# add this stuff to the data segment

			# load the hello string into data memory
hello:	.asciiz "Hello, world!" 

.text              	# now we're in the text segment
	
	li   $v0, 4	# set up print string syscall
	la   $a0, hello	# argument to print string
	syscall		# tell the OS to do the syscall
	li   $v0, 10	# set up exit syscall
	syscall		# tell the OS to do the syscall