Foonly

(1)The PDP-10 successor that was to have been built by theSuper Foonly project at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory along with a new operating system. The intentionwas to leapfrog from the old DEC time-sharing system SAILwas then running to a new generation, bypassing TENEX which atthat time was the ARPANET standard. ARPA funding forboth the Super Foonly and the new operating system was cut in1974. Most of the design team went to DEC and contributedgreatly to the design of the PDP-10 model KL10.

Foonly

(2)The name of the company formed by Dave Poole, one of theprincipal Super Foonly designers, and one of hackerdom's morecolourful personalities. Many people remember the parrotwhich sat on Poole's shoulder and was a regular companion.

Foonly

(3)Any of the machines built by Poole's company. The firstwas the F-1 (a.k.a. Super Foonly), which was thecomputational engine used to create the graphics in the movie"TRON". The F-1 was the fastest PDP-10 ever built, but onlyone was ever made. The effort drained Foonly of its financialresources, 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 calledFoonex; this seriously limited their market. Also, themachines shipped were actually wire-wrapped engineeringprototypes requiring individual attention from more thanusually competent site personnel, and thus had significantreliability problems. Poole's legendary temper andunwillingness to suffer fools gladly did not help matters. Bythe time of the Jupiter project cancellation in 1983, Foonly'sproposal to build another F-1 was eclipsed by the Mars, andthe company never quite recovered. See the Mars entry forthe continuation and moral of this story.

单词	foonly
释义	Foonly Foonly (1)The PDP-10 successor that was to have been built by theSuper Foonly project at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory along with a new operating system. The intentionwas to leapfrog from the old DEC time-sharing system SAILwas then running to a new generation, bypassing TENEX which atthat time was the ARPANET standard. ARPA funding forboth the Super Foonly and the new operating system was cut in1974. Most of the design team went to DEC and contributedgreatly to the design of the PDP-10 model KL10. Foonly (2)The name of the company formed by Dave Poole, one of theprincipal Super Foonly designers, and one of hackerdom's morecolourful personalities. Many people remember the parrotwhich sat on Poole's shoulder and was a regular companion. Foonly (3)Any of the machines built by Poole's company. The firstwas the F-1 (a.k.a. Super Foonly), which was thecomputational engine used to create the graphics in the movie"TRON". The F-1 was the fastest PDP-10 ever built, but onlyone was ever made. The effort drained Foonly of its financialresources, 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 calledFoonex; this seriously limited their market. Also, themachines shipped were actually wire-wrapped engineeringprototypes requiring individual attention from more thanusually competent site personnel, and thus had significantreliability problems. Poole's legendary temper andunwillingness to suffer fools gladly did not help matters. Bythe time of the Jupiter project cancellation in 1983, Foonly'sproposal to build another F-1 was eclipsed by the Mars, andthe company never quite recovered. See the Mars entry forthe continuation and moral of this story.
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