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Re: Open Prolog - for Macintoshes

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From: Lindsay Groves
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 1990 03:38
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In article <7310.2736cc63@swift.cs.tcd.ie>, brady@swift.cs.tcd.ie writes:
|> Net People,
|> I have been working on a standard Prolog implementation for Macintosh
|> computers. The current status of it is that it is reasonably stable,
|> and maybe useful to some of you.
|> It's called Open Prolog, and implements much of Edinburgh Prolog. It's got
|> support for DCGs, 'safe' assert/retract semantics,
|> last-call optimisation, and garbage collects its heap/global stack.
|> 
|> It's got a fairly good set of built-in predicates (but integer-only
|> arithmetic)
|> and a very simple debugger. It runs on any Mac 'better' than a Mac
|> Plus,
|> and is Multifinder friendly etc. Speed: 1900/Plus 7400/II (Lips).
|> It runs comfortably in a 1MB Multifinder partition or a 1MB machine
|> with
|> Multifinder switched off.
|> 
|> Now, I'd be very happy to give copies of it to anyone who might use
|> it.
|> Unfortunately, we aren't able to offer remote FTP yet, so I'd need
|> someone who can to 'host' it and make it available from their site.
|> 
|> So, if anyone would like to volunteer to host it, let me know.
|> 
|> Thanks
|> Mike Brady
|> brady@cs.tcd.ie
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From: lindsay@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Lindsay Groves)
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Subject: Re: Open Prolog - for Macintoshes
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