Not really (and please hear me out!). The last thread had a few amazed commenter's remarking that they were surprised that there was a C compiler, or that they

Not really (and please hear me out!). The last thread had a few amazed commenter's remarking that they were surprised that there was a C compiler, or that they could do various things within it. The amazing part is that an x86 emulator was made that could start up a linux image - everything else is kind of obvious that it should work at that point since the x86 emulator was written so well. So the amazing part is the emulator - everything else including the assembly etc should just work because well - it's supposed to!