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I'm pleased to see that this compiler is designed to bootstrap itself.

Until now I wasn't aware of any open-source C compilers that support 16-bit DOS real mode and can also run in 16-bit DOS real mode. (OpenWatcom is far too large and DJGPP is strictly 32-bit protected mode only.)

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Thanks. Ideally I'd have liked if bootstrapping only required an assembler (and then successively more advanced versions could compiler the next in line), but this was enough of a challenge for a side project. Maybe later :)

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