Foonlies

Paul Koning paulkoning at comcast.net
Wed Jan 31 08:00:32 CST 2018



> On Jan 31, 2018, at 3:28 AM, Lars Brinkhoff via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 
> This document seems to imply that the Super Foonly and the Foonly F1
> were separate machines.  When I've seen them discussed, they always
> seemed to be uses synonymously.
> 
> http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/pdp10/KC10_Jupiter/memos/foonly_19840410.pdf
> 
> SUPERFOONLY   DESIGNED 1968-71
> 10,000 TTL IC'S
> 3 MIPS
> 
> F1 (1978)
> 5,000 ECL IC'S
> 3.5 MIPS

Wow, 10 years later, with faster chips, and still the same speed?  That's surprising.

	paul




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