To: Christopher Stacy <cstacy@pilgrim.com>, lispos@math.gatech.edu 
Subject: Re: Foonly for the Future 
From: Michael Travers <mt@media.mit.edu> 
Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 20:36:26 -0400 
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Actually there were several different Foonly machines, F1 through
F5. All were PDP10 clones; some had extensions (the F5 had a
bit-reversal operation to speed FFTs, for instance). I believe that
the F1 was, for a time, the fastest PDP10-type machine around. Dave
Poole was the chief designer of these machines.

Additional totally irrelevant remark: Brian Silverman has written a
PDP1emulator in Java that is capable of running the original spacewar
program in a web browser.

What this has to do with a LispOS is beyond me.


Michael Travers  /  mt@media.mit.edu  /  http://www.media.mit.edu/~mt