That's a very good question!

Karim seems determined to get hold of a pure old 16-bit DOS compiler for some reason:

http://www.8052.com/forum/read.phtml?id=72821
http://www.8052.com/forum/read.phtml?id=71177

In the absence of such a thing, now he's going to try and build it himself.

Although I suppose I must take at least some of the blame for suggesting the idea, I'd have thought it would actually be far more worthwhile to spend the effort intalling Linux...?