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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Taking over dev86
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 15:01:12 +0000
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> Alternatively, in the land of compilers written after 1980, wasn't Alan
> Cox working on a i86 pcc port?

It got as far as generating valid 16bit 386 code. The additional limits
for indirect accesses need adding which turns out to be quite fiddly so
I've simply not had time to do it.

Alan