From: rbaltissen@nospicedham.gmail.com   
      
   Hallo Rick,   
      
   > In re-reading the OP, I think he's not looking to create an emulator,   
   > but rather to write his OS + toolset and run it on real 8086/8 hardware.   
      
   Correct.   
      
   > (though it's arguable if it's his OS, and the Pascal compiler is the   
   > only one available, what else would there be?)   
      
   At this moment my OS can boot, can start files and I'm busy implementing   
   handling directories. First of all: it is slow but steady fun project.    
      
   This Pascal compiler should be one of it first tools. At this moment it runs   
   under DOS and is only to produce programs containing "write" and "writeln"   
   because so far only the macros for these statements have been filled with ML   
   instructions. It can    
   compile itself and only of all macros have been filled it should run under my   
   own OS.   
      
   Kind regards, Ruud Baltissen   
      
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