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On 30.08.2013 17:30, RoBoard Lab wrote:
> DJGPP has a recent application in the field of open-source hardware.
>
> Arduino is a popular open-source hardware based on ATMEL ATmega
> microprocessor. And we are now developing an Arduino-compatible board
> using x86 CPU. The OS of the x86 Arduino is FreeDOS, and so its best
> compiler is DJGPP because the compiler of the original Arduino is avr-gcc.

I'm afraid you're jumping to conclusions a bit fast there.  AVR, and 
thus the existing Arduino, is a 16-bit platform, FreeDOS is a 16-bit x86 
OS.  A 32-bit compiler like DJGPP can be a good choice for that, but 
it's certainly not automatically or necessarily the "best" one.

OpenWatcom might be a better fit, if only because it can actually 
produce native 16-bit DOS programs.

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