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From: srt@aero.ARPA (Scott R. Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Student versions of OPS5
Message-ID: <26695@aero.ARPA>
Date: 9 Mar 88 15:47:14 GMT
References: <1110@pembina.UUCP> <1115@pembina.UUCP>
Reply-To: srt@aero.UUCP (Scott R. Turner)
Organization: The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA
Lines: 14
Keywords: OPS5, IBM PC/XT/AT

In article <1115@pembina.UUCP> goebel@pembina.UUCP (Randy Goebel) writes:
> OPS5 is procedural, so maybe you will all be better off?

In what way is OPS5 procedural?  

At any rate, there have been various cheap rule-based expert system
tools available on PCs for quite some time.  I don't think a $250
version of OPS5 is going to start any big revolution.  Especially
since OPS5 is somewhat dated even when fully implemented (Rete), and
most micro versions of OPS5 aren't complete implementations.  Indeed,
I don't think the Vax version uses Rete (at least, it allows
calculations in the LHS).

					-- Scott Turner