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From: motcid!ahlenius@relay.eu.net (Mark Ahlenius)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.shells
Subject: Re: Shells for UNIX or Mac (Reposting)
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Date: 18 May 90 11:51:13 GMT
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Posted-Date: Mon May 28 10:56:43 GMT 1990

mbro3@aucs7.aukuni.ac.nz writes:

>Does anyone know of any E.S. shells for UNIX or the Mac that are specialized 
>towards process control, or control of a factory in general (especially PD
>cheap or demo versions).

>If not, what about ANY ES shells at all that are PD, either for UNIX
>or the Mac.

Mark,
as far as a cheap (relatively) forward chaining expert systems shell,
I could recommend CLIPS which is put out by NASA, here in the states.
It is extremely OPS-like, is written in C, and all the source is
included in the purchase.  It is distributed by:

	COSMIC
	University of Georgia
	382 Eas Broad St.
	Athens, GA, 30602
	(404) 280-2233

Once you obtain a copy of it, you have rights to make additional copies
for use within your organization.

The have specific versions for the Mac, and the source can be compiled
on just about any C compiler.  I compiled it on my Mac + using Think C
and it works fine.  It is *NOT* a graphics based tool, just text 
oriented.  You can however make the runtime version embeddable in
other code.

regards

	'mark

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