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Article #3016Re: Prolog for the AMIGA
From: Peter Schachte
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1988 21:29
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1988 21:29
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There has been some discussion of this in comp.sys.amiga. For those
interested, Scott Evernden (scott@applix.UUCP) has ported SB-Prolog
to the Amiga. He has been looking for beta testers, so you might want
to contact him directly. This is his original posting:
I have completed porting SB-Prolog to the Amiga.
This is an academic-class Prolog interpreter implementing a WAM (Warren
Abstract Machine) simulator. On my 68010 A1000, the interpreter
operates at over 1000 LIPS (logical interences per second), and the
compiler can produce WAM byte code which the simulator can run at over
3600 LIPS.
I need some beta-testers who have Amigas and understand Prolog.
I don't know the language well enough myself to know whether this thing
is truly useable, or is more of a toy. The bulk of SB-Prolog is
written in Prolog, and I have run the compiler (great chunks of code)
without incident. I have also tried individual experiments, and
everything seems to function OK.
This thing is a memory pig, requiring 75K to load, and 2 contiguous
300K (by default) globs of core to run in. It occasionally can't find
a way to run in my 2.5 Megs. If you have only a Meg (like an A500),
then maybe you would like to try, and report to me if 1 meg is enough
to do useful work. 512K simply ain't enough, sorry.
Send me MAIL telling me of your Amiga and Prolog expertise and let me
know how I should send it. (over 800K)
-scott
I haven't seen it yet so I can't say anything about it.
--
-Peter Schachte
pds@quintus.uucp
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!quintus!pds From: pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte) Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog Subject: Re: Prolog for the AMIGA Message-ID: <691@sandino.quintus.UUCP> Date: 25 Feb 88 21:29:31 GMT References: <489@taux01.UUCP> <4518@garfield.UUCP> Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA Lines: 38 Summary: SB-Prolog has been ported to the Amiga