Why align ?

From: sugaray (ruicui_at_sohu.com)
Date: 02/27/04 

Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 22:59:38 +0000 (UTC)

The following is MASM generated assembly code for the helloworld
program, I don't know why a 'ORG $+2' after the Hello string. is
it for the alignment purpose ? and why align ? thanx.

_DATA SEGMENT
Hello DB 'Hello, World!', 00H
        ORG $+2
Format DB '%s', 0aH, 00H
_DATA ENDS

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