Dreaming of a lean installation method

[woodelf]

Allison wrote:

> I might point out that CP/M was initially cross compiled on a PDP10
> for the 8080 and in the later years rewritten in C and a VAX was used.
> It's not unusual to have a OS that does not come supplied with 
> compilation tools.  

This is the 8086 with 640K of memory.The problem with minux 1.0 is the C-compiler
was adapted to produce code specific for the 8086 architecture. Only once you
go to a non-segmented design can you get a real OS and a real Compiler.


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