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.


[ I asked Peter to provide a little more information about the ]
[ system, and to compare it with Stony Brook Prolog.  Here is  ]
[ some of his response.                 -Dan                   ]

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.