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From: bob@socorro.kanda.placitas.nm.us (Bob Knight)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,alt.sys.pdp10
Subject: Re: PDP10 clones (was: Compuserve and the DEC-10)
Date: 26 Sep 1995 13:10:28 GMT
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In article <baum-2509951807060001@piem3.atg.apple.com>, Allen J. Baum wrote:
>Foonley (now defunct) was a spinoff from the Superfoonley project at the
>Stanford AI Lab. They got ARPA funding to build a processor 10x faster
>than the KA-10. When the project folded, DEC picked up the design (and a
>designer or two) and built the KL-10. The KL-10 built upon the
>Superfoonley design, but there were differences (ECL vs. TTL, etc).
>Foonley built several models of their clones.

Foonly also built the F3, delivering several (five?...memory fails
me) F3's to Tymshare in the 1980-82 timeframe.  The Kestrel Institute
had at least one, as did CCRMA.  I think SRI (CSL?) had one, also.  The
F4, a follow-on, was never delivered AFAIK.
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