section .bss
    readBuf resb 1000
    readBuf2 resb 1000
    bufSize equ 1000

section .data
    prompt  db "Hello, please type something in",0x0A
    promptLen equ $ - prompt


section .text
    global _start

_start:
    mov  edx, 33       ;
    mov  ecx, prompt   ;
    mov  ebx, 1        ;
    mov  eax, 0x04     ; sys_write (why am I using hex for this? I dunno, looks cool...
    int  0x80


    mov  edx, bufSize  ; max number of bytes to read
    mov  ecx, readBuf  ; address of buffer to store bytes from input
    mov  ebx, 0        ; stdin file descriptor
    mov  eax, 0x03     ; sys_call read
    int  0x80          ; generate interrupt to trigger kernal system call

    ; maybe we should check for failure here (return value negative??)

    ;now let's just echo the text back out...
    mov  edx, eax      ;
    mov  ecx, readBuf  ;
    mov  ebx, 1        ;
    mov  eax, 0x04     ; sys_write (why am I using hex for this? I dunno, looks cool...
    int  0x80


    ; now let's see if we can reverse the text...

    ; exit cleanly
    _exit:
    mov     ebx,0               ;first syscall argument: exit code
    mov     eax,1               ;system call number (sys_exit)
    int     0x80                ;call kernel