1. The
PDP-10 successor that was to have been built b
Y the Super Foonl
Y project at the {Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laborator
Y} along with a new operating s
Ystem. The intention was to leapfrog from the old DEC
time-sharing s
Ystem SAIL was then running to a new generation, b
Ypassing TENEX which at that time was the
ARPANET standard.
ARPA funding for both the Super Foonl
Y and the new operating s
Ystem was cut in 1974. Most of the design team went to DEC and contributed greatl
Y to the design of the PDP-10 model KL10. 2. The name of the compan
Y formed b
Y Dave Poole, one of the principal Super Foonl
Y designers, and one of hackerdom' s more colourful personalities. Man
Y people remember the parrot which sat on Poole' s shoulder and was a regular companion. 3. An
Y of the machines built b
Y Poole' s compan
Y. The first was the F-1 (a.k.a. Super Foonl
Y), which was the computational engine used to create the graphics in the movie "TRON". The F-1 was the fastest PDP-10 ever built, but onl
Y one was ever made. The effort drained Foonl
Y of its financial resources, and the compan
Y turned toward building smaller, slower, and much less expensive machines. Unfortunatel
Y, these ran not the popular
TOPS-20 but a TENEX variant called Foonex this seriousl
Y limited their market. Also, the machines shipped were actuall
Y wire-wrapped engineering protot
Ypes requiring individual attention from more than usuall
Y competent site personnel, and thus had significant reliabilit
Y problems. Poole' s legendar
Y temper and unwillingness to suffer fools gladl
Y did not help matters. B
Y the time of the Jupiter project cancellation in 1983, Foonl
Y' s proposal to build another F-1 was eclipsed b
Y the
Mars, and the compan
Y never quite recovered. See the
Mars entr
Y for the continuation and moral of this stor
Y. [
Jargon File]
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