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My first job in 1987 was porting all of Oracle's source code (entirely in C for 32 bit architectures) to a 64 bit Control Data mainframe.

So, that.

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Was it particularly well written or optimized in very clever ways? Bob Miner was supposedly a beast of a coder from what I've read, so wouldn't surprise me.

Oddly enough, I never met any of the coders. The entire code base turned up on mag tapes from Belmont, CA. I was working in Toronto. I was very much a newbie, so I didn't form an educated opinion on code quality. There were very few bugs, I do remember that.

There was a lot of code, about 1.5 million lines over two version of Oracle, which included a bunch of applications as well as the RDMS.

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