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I have found the Helios C compiler on transputers to be very
solid.  Of course Helios does not claim to be Unix compatible,
(whatever 'compatible' means for Unix),  although it
supports many of the Unix calls and the Posix standards, and
Perihelion (who wrote Helios) have also provided stuff like
micro-emacs and X-windows.
 
I ported the ML (functional language interpreter) from Edinburgh,
together with their concurrency workbench software, and I was
very happy with the results.  (About 25000 lines, I guess.)
 
The compiler is ANSI compatible, so that code that
has been written to be portable is not really a
problem.  My own functional language compiler/interpreter
also went on without many hitches: all the problems were
my own PC-induced misconceptions about byte / word alignment,
and fiddling with literal strings.  In fact, I felt the port
to Helios C greatly improved the quality of the code!  This was
also about 20000 lines.
 
I have no connection to Perihelion or Helios.
 
Pete
 
 
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