LispOS compiler question

[Emergent Technologies]

On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Emergent Technologies wrote:
; In an attempt to bring some life back into this group, I'll post a
; question. 
; 
; What would be a good compiler to use for writing a LispOS?  I think
; the following goals would be nice:

To which Louis Glassy <glassy@cs.montana.edu> replied:
> gcc is the only compiler i know of that supports tail 
> recursion in the "proper" scheme sense of the term.

> other than that, the only free retargetable ansi c
> compiler is lcc from princeton.

I'm sorry, I should have said
What would be a good *Lisp* compiler to use for writing a LispOS?
~jrm