Editing Foonly (section)

==History==
At the beginning of the 1970s, the [[Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory]] (SAIL) began to study the building of a new computer to replace their DEC PDP-10 KA10, by a far more powerful machine, with a funding from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ([[DARPA]]).<ref name="hackers" /> This project was named "Super-Foonly", and was developed by a team led by Phil Petit, Jack Holloway, and Dave Poole.<ref name="hackers" /><ref name="dyer">{{cite web |last=Dayer |first=Dave |title=Dave Dayer, one of the ''F1'' designers, about Foonly |url=http://pdp10.nocrew.org/cpu/ddyer.html |access-date=25 January 2024 |website=pdp10.nocrew.org}}</ref> The name itself came from FOO NLI, an error message emitted by a PDP-10 assembler at SAIL meaning "FOO is Not a Legal Identifier".<ref>{{cite web |title=Foonly |url=http://www.fact-index.com/f/fo/foonly.html |website=fact-index.com}}</ref> In 1974, DARPA cut the funding, and a large part of the team went to [[Digital Equipment Corporation|DEC]] to develop the ''PDP-10 model KL10'', based on the Super-Foonly.<ref name="hackers" />

But Dave Poole, with Phil Petit and Jack Holloway, preferred to found the Foonly Company in 1976,<ref name="F2" /> to try to build a series of computers based on the Super-Foonly.

During the early 1980s, after the construction of the first and only F1, Foonly built and sold some low cost DEC [[PDP-10]] compatible machines: the F2, F4, F4B and F5.<ref name="F2" /><ref name="hackers" /><ref name="overview" />

In 1983, after the cancellation of the DEC [[Jupiter project]], Foonly tried to propose a new F1, but it was eclipsed by [[Systems Concepts]] and their Mars project. Foonly never recovered, shutting down in 1989.<ref name="hackers" />