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From: mjw@f.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Witbrock)
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Subject: Re: System Level support for AI stuff
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Date: 4 Aug 88 15:38:50 GMT
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Chris Baron Writes:

"Making the Amiga into a lisp-machine is not my intention here.  What the
mind actually reels under is the memory and processor space required to
impliment Common Lisp on a micro.  I have used a Common Lisp SUBSET on a PC
with a 16 MHz 386 and 9 Megs of memory and it was pathetic!  Someone else
will have to do that to the Ami Making the Amiga into a lisp-machine is not
my intention here.  What the  mind
actually reels under is the memory and processor space required to impliment
Common Lisp on a micro. "

I don't know why a 9m 386 Implementation of common lisp should be a problem.
I run CMU Common Lisp on an RT APC, which is, almost by definition,
 a complete implementation,  on which it takes about 4-5m. Since 
the RT is a Risc Machine, code for it tends to be about 2-3 times larger
than equivalent 68000 program. 9 megs should be more thank adequate.

I don't know about scheme; it looks more theoretically pure, but harder to
write real software in. I mostly hack C anyway, but I think the attack on
Common lisp is unwarrented.

---
P.S. If you must put some 'ai' hardware in, rete might be useful, but don't
expect me to buy it. 

My brain doesn't do AI is prolog or with RETE, and neither do connectionists.
What we want is more memory and more cycles, which is probably the best way
for Commodore to appeal to all AI people, rather than just the rule based
few.
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