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 <[email protected]>
> 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 <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>> On Nov 7, 2023, at 8:49 PM, Paul Koning <[email protected]> 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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