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From: gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Don Gillies)
Subject: Re: XDS940 computer (or Xerox Sigma 9)
Message-ID: <1991Jun11.231151.16752@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
References: <1991Jun5.231450.25856@digi.lonestar.org> <13933@goofy.Apple.COM> <1991Jun8.085847.7980@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <1991Jun10.235301.2946@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1991 23:11:51 GMT

alderson@Alderson.Stanford.EDU (Rich Alderson) writes:
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>gillies@cs.uiuc.EDU (Don Gillies) writes:
>> (a whole bunch of stuff about Xerox's handbuilt DEC-10, named "MAXC")

>Is this the origin of the Foonly?

No, in the early 1980's when DEC announced it was halting production
and enhancement of the DECsystem10 and DECsystem20 series (i.e.
cancelling the "Venus" project), many universities were upset and
claimed they could not live without new DEC-10 series computers.
Perhaps "Foonly" was the name of one of the companies organized in an
attempt to build more DEC-10 - type machines.

Don Gillies - gillies@cs.uiuc.edu - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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