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  Foonly - Computing Reference - eLook.org
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.
ARPA funding for both the Super Foonly and the new operating system was cut in 1974.
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.
www.elook.org /computing/foonly.htm   (282 words)

  
 Dave Dyer on The Foonly F1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Dave Dyer on The Foonly F1 Dave Dyer, one of the principals behind the F1 sent this in:
Foonly Inc carried on, building F2,3,4,&5 in various quantities for people who wanted pdp-10's but not to pay DEC's prices.
The first few "little foonly" models were built from 2901 bitslices, based on a design originally intended to be the F1's console computer.
pdp10.nocrew.org /cpu/ddyer.html   (378 words)

  
 Foonly - Definition of Foonly by Webster's Online Dictionary
Foonly - 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.
Foonly - The name of the company formed by Dave Poole, one of the principal Super Foonly designers, and one of hackerdom's more colourful personalities.
The effort drained Foonly of its financial resources, and the company turned toward building smaller, slower, and much less expensive machines.
www.webster-dictionary.org /definition/Foonly   (307 words)

  
 The Foonly F1
Jim Rapley, who was one of the maintenance guys who knew the Foonly, and had worked with many of the people as it was developed at Triple-I came onboard first, followed soon by Art Durinski, a designer who had worked on TRON, Adam the Juggler, and many other Foonly projects.
Probably the worst moment of my life with the Foonly came after we had managed to get it moved to Paramount Studios and were cranking through the film for a long sequence for Flight of the Navigator, a Disney film.
Since the Foonly only had enough disk storage to hold the frame being computed and the frame being printed, the numbers worked out like this: 30 seconds of film at 24 frames per second works out to 720 images each computed and printed at 6000 x 4000 pixels.
accad.osu.edu /~waynec/history/externalpages/Foonly.html   (2061 words)

  
 Foonly
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.
The name of the company formed by Dave Poole, one of the principal Super Foonly designers, and one of hackerdom_s more colorful personalities.
Super Foonly), which was the computational engine used to create the graphics in the movie
support.internetconnection.net /DEFINITIONS/Definition_of_Foonly.html   (317 words)

  
 Blame
1.1 (foonly 27-Sep-04): 1.1 (foonly 27-Sep-04): An annotated RCS file describes the revision and date in 1.1 (foonly 27-Sep-04): which each line was added to the file, and the author of 1.1 (foonly 27-Sep-04): each line.
It is the RCS equivalent of CVS's _annotate_ 1.8 (foonly 28-Sep-04):.
1.1 (foonly 27-Sep-04): 1.8 (foonly 28-Sep-04): The output from Blame was passed through a pretty-printer 1.8 (foonly 28-Sep-04): to generate the HTML.
blame.sourceforge.net   (500 words)

  
 "Foonly Tunes" by Samuel Pellman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Foonly Tunes is structured as a theme with three variations, followed by a truncated restatement of the theme.
The synthesizer was driven by a Foonly F-2 computer (hence, the title of the piece).
The tape was then edited in the Studio for Electronic Music at Hamilton College, in Clinton, New York.
www.borg.com /~spellman/Foonly.html   (190 words)

  
 Foonly for the Future   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
I think that some of the earliest SMBX docs were written in > it.
It ran in Maclisp on the SMBX Foonly (pdp10 emulator).
The Foonly was a separate machine developed by a company that wanted to compete with DEC in building pdp10's.
lists.tunes.org /archives/lispos/1997-May/000415.html   (284 words)

  
 foonly - OneLook Dictionary Search   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
We found 2 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word foonly:
Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "foonly" is defined.
Foonly : Free On-line Dictionary of Computing [home, info]
www.onelook.com /?loc=rescb&w=foonly   (77 words)

  
 JargonDB › The Jargon File › Part II - The Jargon Lexicon › Glossary › Foonly
JargonDB › The Jargon File › Part II - The Jargon Lexicon › Glossary › Foonly
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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.
www.jargondb.org /glossary/foonly   (403 words)

  
 Foonly - The Jargon File v4.4.7
DEC timesharing system SAIL was then running to a new generation, bypassing TENEX which at that time was the ARPANET standard.
TOPS-20 but a TENEX variant called Foonex; this seriously limited their market.
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
www.retrologic.com /jargon/F/Foonly.html   (320 words)

  
 Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool: User-Provided Input Files
Let's take a look at the contents of the user-provided input files that are relevant to this minimal project.
## Makefile.am -- Process this file with automake to produce Makefile.in bin_PROGRAMS = foonly foonly_SOURCES = main.c foo.c foo.h nly.c scanner.l parser.y foonly_LDADD = @LEXLIB@
The source files that are used to build
sources.redhat.com /autobook/autobook/autobook_24.html   (257 words)

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