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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
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Summary: SB-Prolog has been ported to the Amiga


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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