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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.
     
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