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1. The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) |
Foonly
n.
1. The PDP-10 successor that was to have been built by the Super Foonly
project at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory along with a new
operating system. (The name itself came from FOO NLI, an error message
emitted by a PDP-10 assembler at SAIL meaning ?FOO is Not a Legal
Identifier?. The intention was to leapfrog from the old DEC timesharing
system SAIL was then running to a new generation, bypassing TENEX which at
that time was the ARPANET standard. ARPA funding for both the Super Foonly
and the new operating system was cut in 1974. Most of the design team went
to DEC and contributed greatly 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 colorful personalities. Many
people remember the parrot which sat 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 computational engine used to create
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 towards building smaller, slower, and
much less expensive machines. Unfortunately, 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
matters. By the time DEC's ?Jupiter Project? followon to the PDP-10 was
cancelled 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 continuation and moral of this story.
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2. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018) |
Foonly
1. The PDP-10 successor that was to have been built by the
Super Foonly project at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory along with a new operating system. The intention
was to leapfrog from the old DEC time-sharing system SAIL
was then running to a new generation, bypassing TENEX which at
that time was the ARPANET standard. ARPA funding for
both the Super Foonly and the new operating system was cut in
1974. Most of the design team went to DEC and contributed
greatly 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 sat 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
computational engine used to create 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. Unfortunately,
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 matters. By
the time of the Jupiter project cancellation 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 continuation and moral of this story.
[Jargon File]
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