Stanford University Design System
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The Stanford University Design System (generally referred to by the acronym, SUDS) was a very early and influential CAD system; written at SAIL by Dick Helliwell.
It was used to design the Superfoonly (for which it was created; the Superfoonly later became the predecessor to the KL10), the S-1 supercomputer (where SUDS was integrated into what became the SCALD CAD system, by Tom McWilliams and Curt Widdoes), and the SUN workstation. It was ported to ITS at the MIT AI Lab, where it was used for the Knight TV system, and the CONS and CADR LISP machines.
SUDS became an important part of DEC's CAD constellation; SCALD was later spun off to an important startup company in the CAD field, Valid Logic Systems.
External links
- The Stanford University Design System (SUDS): Overview - SUDS at DEC
- S-1 Supercomputer (1975-1988) - gives the history at the S-1 project
