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From: stolcke@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU (Andreas Stolcke)
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Subject: Re: Demons in Prolog
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Date: 7 Dec 90 06:19:52 GMT
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In article <4716@mahendo.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>, alan@nereid.jpl.nasa.gov (Alan Quan) writes:
|> I'd like to use such a technique for a real-time application so it has
|> to be relatively fast--- any comments you can provide on suitability of
|> Prolog for real-time environments (Prolog alone or Prolog in conjuction
|> with C) will be of considerable interest. 

There is a version of IF/Prolog called IF/PROmLOG that allows Prolog programs
(along with the runtime system) to be put into ROM for real-time applications,
robot control and similar environments.  It's been used in several industrial
applications, mostly under OS/9, if I remember correctly.

For more information you should contact

	Annette Kolb
	InterFace Computer GmbH
	Garmischer Strasse 4
	8000 Munich 2, Germany
	Phone 011-49-89 51086-55
	Fax 011-49-89 51086-28
	E-mail ifcom!annette@uunet.uu.net

-- 
Andreas Stolcke
International Computer Science Institute	stolcke@icsi.Berkeley.EDU
1957 Center St., Suite 600, Berkeley, CA 94704	(415) 642-4274 ext. 126