Foonlies

[Jon Elson]

On 01/31/2018 08:00 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
>
>> On Jan 31, 2018, at 3:28 AM, Lars Brinkhoff via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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>> 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.
>
>
Oh, but they cut the IC count in HALF!  And, I'll bet, 
doubled the power consumption, too.  If the F1 didn't have 
cache, then they were probably running up against the memory 
bandwidth.

Jon