mac@uvacs.UUCP (03/12/84)
A couple of years ago I heard about a machine called the Foonly-10, a remake of the classic PDP-10 by an outfit called something like Foonly Computers. It made the news because DEC promised to sue. Anyone know what happened? Did they win, or is the Foonly on the market? Alex Colvin ARPA: mac.uvacs@csnet-relay CS: mac@virginia USE: ...uvacs!mac
joe@fluke.UUCP (Joe Kelsey) (03/16/84)
Foonly's come in several flavors, ranging in power from KA-10 to (almost) KL-10 power. I believe that Foonly was recently purchased by Tymshare, Inc. and they are continuing work on a super-Foonly to replace the now-defunct DEC-10/20 line. Tymshare uses Foonly's for most of their timesharing rentals and SRI also has a major inventment in Foonly's. /Joe
dave@uwvax.ARPA (03/21/84)
Well, in the ARPA hosttable, they list machine types, and FOONLY-10 is listed for a number of computers, so I guess the beast is for real. Dave (I'm happy I use a VAX) Cohrs ...!seismo!uwvax!dave dave@wisc-rsch.arpa
hans@log-hb.UUCP (Hans Albertsson) (03/27/84)
[] There's supposedly a machine KL26 from Foonly, somewhere between a 2040 and a 2060 in power, in less than the footprint of 2020. This is supported by Tymeshare, using a TOPS-20 kind of OS. Methinks I'd really like one of those, to replace this juvenile delinquent of ours.