A palindrome checker in 16-bit DOS assembly

A good morning to start off is to get this simple program working. This is an improvement of the previous palindrome checker posted. What can we benefit from this anyway?

; palindrome checker
	
start:
        mov ah, 0ah
        lea dx, strptr
        int 21h
	
        lea di, string
        lea si, strlen
        mov cl, [si]
        xor ch, ch
        mov bx, cx
        lea si, string
        shr cl, 1	        
	
check:
        mov dl, [si]
        mov dh, [di+bx-1]
        cmp dl, dh
        jne notpal
        inc si
        dec di
	
loop check
	
        cmp dl, dh
        je pal
	
notpal:
        mov ah, 09h
        lea dx, msg2
        int 21h
        int 20h
	
pal:
        mov ah, 09h
        lea dx, msg1
        int 21h
        int 20h        
	
strptr  label byte
maxlen  db 49
strlen  db ?
string  db 50 dup ('$')
msg1    db '',10,'string is a palindrome!$'
msg2    db '',10,'string is not a palindrome!$'

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