Short for mim.stupi.net <http://mim.stupi.net/> -- Johnny's web server where I 
found an assortment of RSX manuals, including a whole bunch of layered product 
manuals that carry over to other PDP-11 operating systems as well.  A lot of 
them don't seem to be on Bitsavers.  Among them are installation manuals for 
things like DEC C, APL, and Datatrieve.

So now I have DEC C installed, and it works.  Its generated code is 
surprisingly bad, though.  Loading a sequence of structure fields by loading 
the base address into a register once for each assignment is a rather obvious 
bad idea.  So while GCC is not exactly stellar on PDP-11 (or VAX) code 
generation, it does better than that.

        paul

> On Nov 8, 2023, at 10:50 AM, Lee Courtney via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> Not related to the original question, but what is "STUPI?"
> 
> TIA!
> 
> Lee C.
> 
> On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 11:10 PM Paul Koning via cctalk <
> cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Nov 7, 2023, at 8:49 PM, Paul Koning <pa0...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi...  I'm seriously rusty on official RSTS installation procedures.
>> I'm trying to install DEC C using the C_V1_2.tap file from the bitsavers
>> bits/DEC/pdp11/rsts directory.  It's actually a TPC file, in spite of what
>> the extension suggests.  Once I supply the correct format, SIMH recognizes
>> it and RSTS can see the tape contents.
>>> 
>>> Then I try @[0,1]install c81.  Point to the tape, answer the
>> destination, and then it asks me for the "library" tape and complains when
>> I give it the C tape again (labels don't match).
>>> 
>>> So what is it looking for?  Does anyone have the C installation
>> procedure handy?
>>> 
>>>      paul
>> 
>> Never mind... (a) C81 is COBOL (!!) not C.  And I found the C installation
>> manual on STUPI.  Off & running now.
>> 
>>        paul
>> 
>> 
> 
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