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+## Primary goals
+
+- Run on 8086 or up
+- Be able to load and execute a COM program from disk
+- DOS 2.0 descriptor-file API
+
+## Secondary goals
+
+- Terminal emulator for COM1 (like picocom on linux)
+- Boot linux
+- Editor (nano or ed-like)
+- Self-hosting assembler