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Subject: Build A Machine in Seven Easy Steps - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 22-Jan-84 04:32:59 EST
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ecn-ee!davy    Jan 21 21:23:00 1984



Hello,

	Perhaps this is a stupid question, perhaps not.  A friend of mine
would like to know if there are presently any "expert" systems or other
AI programs which deal with machine architecture design.

	To be slightly more specific, it should be able to take a set of
criteria like "what we want the machine to do", and a database which 
contains a list of components and what they can do.  From this, it should
produce a "build the machine this way, with these components" type
output.

	Is there anything like this?  Anything remotely resembling it?
Anything which deals with even one aspect of it?  Pointers to any literature 
would be appreciated.

--Dave Curry
eevax.davy@purdue  (ARPA)
decvax!pur-ee!davy (UUCP)