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New Products - IEEE Computer Society
New P Editor Richard Eckhouse Moco Inc 91 Surfside Road PO Box A Scituate MA 02055 Compmail r eckhouse This month s New Products and Product Highlights were reviewed and selected by Frank P Mathur California State Polytechnic University at Pomona PLS offers three Prolog products Programming Logic Systems has announced three Prolog software products micro Prolog Professional for MS DOS systems a sigma Prolog interpreter for Unix systems and APES Augmented Prolog for Expert Systems micro Prolog Professional runs on microcomputers under MS DOS and is upward compatible with micro Prolog 3 1 which has been in use for over four years It features Macintosh style windows and menus window handling primitives and full screen editor a variety of programming environments such as English like Simple syntax Edinburgh DEC 10 style syntax and Lisp style syntax memory for all variable names a speed twice that of micro Prolog 3 1 and an OEM version for the production of turnkey systems sigma Prolog runs on super micro and mainframe computers under Unix and is upwardly compatible with micro Prolog APES is a suite of modules imple mented in Prolog By combining these modules a range of logic programming environments can be constructed In par ticular APES can be used to construct logic based expert systems More generally APES is a tool for developing logic programs APES runs under the company s micro Prolog or sigma Prolog APES version 2 0 will feature a redesigned window menu based environ ment templates for whole rules and parts of rules to provide easily understood interaction and explanations as well as the ability to access pages of explanatory text from disk This version will be a compiler compiling APES programs to run with micro Prolog Professional micro Prolog Professional retails for 395 sigma Prolog costs 695 and APES retails for 425 All prices are for a single computer license a reference manual and Prentice Hall s introduction book For more information contact Pro gramming Logic Systems 31 Crescent Dr Milford CT 06460 203 877 7988 Reader Service Number 21 September 1985 Laser publishing available for Unix The ETP in house publishing system from ETP Systems is designed to provide laser printer typography for Unix com puter users at a small fraction of the cost of traditional phototypesetting The turnkey system includes a 300 dot per inch eight page per minute laser printer fully integrated with controlling software The company s usr tools software package contains an enhanced device independent troff several macro for matting packages a laser printer driver a choice of industry standard fonts and a font sizing program Special facilities of usr tools aid in the formatting of tables and mathematical equations Because typesetting also yields more comp |
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