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From: phil@titan.rice.edu (William LeFebvre)
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Subject: Re: Whither Prolog?
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Date: 17 Oct 88 19:37:04 GMT
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In article <4936@garfield.MUN.EDU> john13@garfield.MUN.EDU (John Russell) writes:
>I'm doing a Prolog course this term. Having a Prolog at home to experiment
>with would be very convenient. What sort of (preferably PD) Prolog support
>is available?

I use Stony Brook Prolog, which is copyrighted but explicitly made freely
redistributable.  The amiga port is contained on fish disks #140 and 141.
It runs just like its Unix counterpart (ignoring speed differences caused
by different processors/clock rates).  If you can't easily get ahold of
fish disks, but do have network access, you can get zoo files of fish
disks contents via anonymous FTP from "uxe.cso.uiuc.edu".  These two disks
are in the directories "amiga/fish/ff140" and "amiga/fish/ff141".

>What sort of memory requirements do current implementations
>include (I have 2.5 megs)?

One meg isn't quite enough, but 2.5 should be quite comfortable (I have 3
meg).  SB-Prolog does have options to change the amount of space allocated
for the static areas.

			William LeFebvre
			Department of Computer Science
			Rice University
			<phil@Rice.edu>