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Other compilers that can be used for OS development:

Ken Thompson's portable compiler collection for Plan 9, now available in *nix systems as part of the Go toolchain.
Borland Turbo C - Only useful for 16bit OSes - Available from the Borland Museum
Free Pascal Compiler - Useful for 32-bit OSes. Available at www.freepascal.org. Only issue is that you need to write your own RTL to not call system functions.
TinyCC Available at http://www.tinycc.org .
FreeBasic - 32-bit BASIC compiler (not an interpreter) that has many new improvements that will help in OS construction such as pointers and inline assembly, Available at http://www.freebasic.net
Intel C/C++ Compiler. Commercial (free 30-days trial). Avaliable for Linux, Windows, and OS X. It is very compatibile with MSVC++ (I haven't spent even an hour to change compiler) and GCC (as they say). Famed for it's heavy optimisation. Targets IA-32, x86-64, IA-64, and XScale. Recommended by Intel for systems and applications programming (info on this would be helpful). [1]
PCC - [2]
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 Other compilers that can be used for OS development:
+* [http://genius.cat-v.org/ken-thompson/ Ken Thompson]'s portable [http://kencc.cat-v.org compiler collection for Plan 9], now available in *nix systems as part of the [http://golang.org Go toolchain].
 * Borland Turbo C - Only useful for 16bit OSes - Available from the [http://museum.borland.com/ Borland Museum]
 * Free Pascal Compiler - Useful for 32-bit OSes.  Available at www.freepascal.org.  Only issue is that you need to write your own RTL to not call system functions.