1. The
PDP-10 successor th
AT was to have been built by the Super Foonly project
AT the {Stanford Artificial Intelligence Labor
ATory} along with a new oper
ATing system. The intention was to leapfrog from the old DEC
time-sharing system SAIL was then running to a new gener
ATion, bypassing TENEX which
AT th
AT time was the
ARPANET standard.
ARPA funding for both the Super Foonly and the new oper
ATing system was cut in 1974. Most of the design team went to DEC and contributed gre
ATly to the design of the PDP-10 model KL10. 2. The name of the company formed by Dave Poole, one of the principal Super Foonly designers, and one of hackerdom' s more colourful personalities. Many people remember the parrot which s
AT on Poole' s shoulder and was a regular companion. 3. Any of the machines built by Poole' s company. The first was the F-1 (a.k.a. Super Foonly), which was the comput
ATional engine used to cre
ATe the graphics in the movie "TRON". The F-1 was the fastest PDP-10 ever built, but only one was ever made. The effort drained Foonly of its financial resources, and the company turned toward building smaller, slower, and much less expensive machines. Unfortun
ATely, these ran not the popular
TOPS-20 but a TENEX variant called Foonex this seriously limited their market. Also, the machines shipped were actually wire-wrapped engineering prototypes requiring individual
ATtention from more than usually competent site personnel, and thus had significant reliability problems. Poole' s legendary temper and unwillingness to suffer fools gladly did not help m
ATters. By the time of the Jupiter project cancell
ATion in 1983, Foonly' s proposal to build another F-1 was eclipsed by the
Mars, and the company never quite recovered. See the
Mars entry for the continu
ATion and moral of this story. [
Jargon File]
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