From amiga@cs.unsw.oz.au Mon Feb 8 02:47:19 1993 Received: from usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU by toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu (4.1/UCD.CS.2.0) id AA07211; Mon, 8 Feb 93 02:47:13 PST Received: by usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU id AA24757 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for announce@cs.ucdavis.edu); Mon, 8 Feb 1993 21:47:29 +1100 Return-Path: amiga@cs.unsw.oz.au Received: From red08 With LocalMail ; Mon, 8 Feb 93 21:46:47 +1100 From: amiga@cs.unsw.oz.au (Amiga Utilities) To: announce@cs.ucdavis.edu Date: Mon, 8 Feb 93 21:46:30 +1100 Message-Id: <930208104632.5399@cs.unsw.oz.au> Subject: UNSWProlog announcement X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] Status: RO This announcement is posted by amiga@cs.unsw.oz.au, which is The Amiga Utilities account that I administer, however the contact address is given as s1013734@cs.unsw.oz.au, which is my student account. I would appreciate it if you could remove any references to amiga@cs.unsw.oz.au from the article header as I don't want any mail being directed here in case a new administrator takes over. Thanks, Peter. /// amiga@cs.unsw.oz.au /// The amiga utilities account. \\\/// University of New South Wales \XX/ Sydney, Australia ----- Snip, snip ---------8<------>8--------- snip ,sniP ----- Announcing UNSW Prolog 4.2 Amiga version 1.0 TITLE UNSW Prolog 4.2 VERSION Amiga version 1.0 AUTHOR Original author: Claude Sammut, University of NSW Amiga port: Peter Urbanec, University of NSW s1013734@cs.unsw.oz.au Union Box 12 C/- University of NSW Union P.O. Box 173 Kingsford NSW 2032 Australia DESCRIPTION UNSW Prolog 4.2 is a Prolog interpreter currently in use at the School of Computer Science and Enginnering at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. This is the AmigaDos port of this interpreterer. Amiga version 1.0 is the first public release. It works under Workbench 2.x (it has not been tested with 1.3, but does not contain any 2.x specific code) and includes an optimized 68030 version of the executable. This 68030 version does not contain 6888(1|2) code, so users without FPU's can benefit as well. This release is Enforcer clean. SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS None HOST NAME ftp.cs.unsw.oz.au (149.171.16.16) DIRECTORY pub/amiga FILE NAMES UNSWProlog.lha UNSWProlog.readme PRICE Donation requested, but required. DISTRIBUTABILITY Copyrighted but free. OTHER I expect this release to filter out to other FTP sites eventualy. Keep an eye on archie.au and wuarchive.wustl.edu or ask your nearest archie database if you have problems obtaining this file from ftp.cs.unsw.oz.au. From amiga@cs.unsw.oz.au Mon Feb 8 05:22:19 1993 Received: from usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU by toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu (4.1/UCD.CS.2.0) id AA07923; Mon, 8 Feb 93 05:22:14 PST Received: by usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU id AA27734 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for zerkle@cs.ucdavis.edu); Tue, 9 Feb 1993 00:22:31 +1100 Return-Path: amiga@cs.unsw.oz.au Received: From red08 With LocalMail ; Tue, 9 Feb 93 00:21:56 +1100 From: amiga@cs.unsw.oz.au (Amiga Utilities) To: zerkle@cs.ucdavis.edu (Dan Zerkle) Date: Tue, 9 Feb 93 0:21:44 +1100 Message-Id: <930208132147.7496@cs.unsw.oz.au> Subject: Re: UNSWProlog announcement In-Reply-To: <9302081056.AA07260@toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu>; from "Dan Zerkle" at Feb 8, 93 2:56 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] Status: RO Once upon a time Dan Zerkle said: > > Ok, I'll put this up. Before I do, though, would you like to > include any more interesting information about the interpreter? > Basically, all you say is that interprets Prolog. Is it any better > than Stony Brook Prolog? Well, I have not seen the Stony Brook Prolog, all I heard was that it has some bugs. I reckon my port is bug free :-) I suppose another thing to mention would be that it includes a large amount of on-line help accessible from the interpreter, the ability to execute other processes either synchronously or asynchronously and a customizable initialisation file. It also examines environment variables to use your favourite text editor. Comes with a fair few example files and a manual in troff format. It has been compiled with profiling on, which will allow the user to optimize his/her code. I found the speed adequate for all of my Artificial Inteligence assignments, which turned out to be quite large. However, I have no other implementations of Prolog for Amiga to compare the performance. > Also, Prolog tends to be a memory hog. How much mem does this take to > run reasonably well? Executable is less than 64k and it runs quite hapilly in 1Meg, I pressume it would work in 512k, but have no machine to test this on. > I can easily change your contact address. Why didn't you just post > from the one you wanted? The whole department is getting re-organised around here, since the holidays are almost over and everyone comes back to uni during first week of March (If it was up to me I'd stay at the beach for the next 3 months, but I got to get this degree out of the way :-) So, anyway, my student account can only be accessed from 3 labs. One of them is undergoing reconstruction this week, and the other 2 are closed until the start of session. > I'll bet you didn't expect this Yank to be awake at this time in the > morning (3AM here on the left coast). I was playing NetHack 3.1 and > got a little carried away. Well, it is just after midnight here in Sydney (on the populated coast :-) and I really should have been out of this lab by 4:30, but since the security guards haven't found me yet, I am sifting through several thousands of articles of news. I am even reading groups that I haven't been to in ages, like comp.sys.amiga.graphics. /// amiga@cs.unsw.oz.au /// The amiga utilities account. \\\/// University of New South Wales \XX/ Sydney, Australia