(Contraction of NORman + Mycroft) A company producing C compilers, set up by Arthur NORman and Alan Mycroft. Now "sORt of" called Codemist. The ORiginal NORcroft compiler was written by Alan and Arthur to provide a platfORm fOR teaching languages and compilers on the Cambridge Universitymainframe. They then went on to develop versions fOR the transputer, ARM and others. [What is the relationship between NORCroft and Codemist?] (1994-10-25)