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 Living Computers: Museum + Labs 2245 1st Avenue S Seattle, WA 98134 mailto:ri...@livingcomputers.org http://www.LivingComputers.org/
