Editing Free Pascal (section)

=== Early years ===
Free Pascal was created when Borland clarified that Borland Pascal development for [[DOS]] would stop with version 7, to be replaced by a [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]]-only product, which later became Delphi.

Student [[Florian Klämpfl|Florian Paul Klämpfl]] began developing his own compiler written in the Turbo Pascal dialect and produced [[32-bit]] code for the GO32v1 [[DOS extender]], which was used and developed by the DJ's GNU Programming Platform ([[DJGPP]]) project at that time.

Originally, the compiler was a [[16-bit]] DOS executable compiled by [[Turbo Pascal]]. After two years, the compiler was able to [[Bootstrapping (compilers)|compile itself]] and became a 32-bit executable.