From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: djgpp-compiled programs on a 8088/86???
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 17:56:19 +0300
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Wouter van Ooijen wrote:
> 
> >It might be that both you and the people who the OP was citing were talking
> >about djasm (which can produce 16-bit code) or DJ Delorie's unfinished
> >project whereby he wrote a 16-bit linker.  But these are not DJGPP.
> Nono, definitely not. I use djgpp (2.8.1 I think) to compiler a
> program (which itself happens to be a compiler). Some people claim to
> have succesfully used my compiler on an 8088 which I found very
> strange

It is not strange, it is simply impossible.  DJGPP produces 32-bit
protected-mode code; one of the first things every DJGPP program does is to
test the processor type, and if it is not 386 or better, the stub loader
will refuse to run, saying something like "80386 required".