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From: bts@sas.UUCP (Brian T. Schellenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: System Level support for AI stuff
Message-ID: <585@sas.UUCP>
Date: 2 Aug 88 21:34:32 GMT
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Reply-To: bts@sas.UUCP (Brian T. Schellenberger)
Organization: SAS Institute Inc, Cary NC
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Nice pipe dream, but I doubt that you have any conception of the amount of
system resources this would be likely to require . . . in particular, it is
not, alas, feasible while runing on a floppy-based system with 512k or at
most 1 meg, which where the huge number of users still are.  Too bad, and I
hope we see some of this for 2.0 (in 1995).  :-)

Also, it is unlikely to yeild much system performance; most intelligent 
systems use so much time that the benefit from intelligently allocating 
task priorities, memory, &c. is more than eaten up by the processing to do
so.  (I mean using real AI techniques, not just paying attention to what
a task is doing in assigning priorities.)

The only real performance gains in AI systems tend to be with highly 
parallel processors; AI techniques tend to parallelize (<- my own word!)
better.
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--Brian,                     __________________________________________________
  the man from              |Brian T. Schellenberger   ...!mcnc!rti!sas!bts
  Babble-On                 |104 Willoughby Lane     work: (919) 467-8000 x7783
____________________________|Cary, NC   27513        home: (919) 469-9389