31 Jan
2018
31 Jan
'18
6:25 p.m.
From: Lars Brinkhoff
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2018 11:28 AM
Al Kossow wrote:
>> SUPERFOONLY DESIGNED 1968-71
>> 10,000 TTL IC'S
>> 3 MIPS
> Was this ever built? 10K ICs would have been
bigger than the Livermore S-1.
This says the Superfoonly was designed. Doesn't
say it was actually
built. Triple-I funded the construction of the updated design, the F1.
"The original superfoonly was designed at Stanford, on an ARPA
contract, but Dave Poole, Phil Pettit, and Jack Holloway. There was
also a fourth whose role (I think) was to build the CAD system which
was used for the design. He later went to work for DEC. DEC took the
foonly design and lobotomized it, which became the KL10. The other
three came to Triple-I with a proposal to build an updated version of
the original design (using ECL instead of TTL).
http://dave.zfxinc.net/ddyer.html
The fourth guy was Dick Helliwell, who was hired by DEC when they licensed SUDS
from SAIL. I met Dick when we both worked at XKL; he
was the major part of the
effort to make SUDS run on the X Window System, on the
KL-10 and later on the
Toad-1. I'm going to disagree with the history Al posted, because Dick himself
told me the story.
He also ported Perl 4 and the GNU utilities and Emacs to TOPS-20.
Rich
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Systems Engineer
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