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<drakonis> https://alexw.nyc/tech/duskos-1.html TIL dusk os has a C compiler in forth
<muurkha>nice
<oriansj>drakonis: well yes, C compilers are surprisingly easy to write (even in assembly). Doing an ANSI C compiler or one capable of building TCC or GCC is a much higher bar.
<drakonis>indeed
<muurkha>is there a good 8086 C compiler in Debian? I tried bcc the other day but was not impressed with the quality of the output code. also it only takes K&R C
<muurkha>8086-targeting, I mean, not necessarily 8086-hosted