[mod.ai] Common Lisp and Prolog on VM/CMS

dsn@VORPAL.CS.UMD.EDU (Dana Nau) (07/21/86)

We are looking for implementations of Common Lisp and Prolog that run under 
VM/CMS, to be used for undergraduate/graduate instruction.  I'd appreciate
any information people might have about the following:
 
(1) Does anyone know of a decent Common Lisp that runs under VM/CMS? 
    (IBM Lisp isn't suitable for our purposes, since it's rather different
    from Common Lisp).
 
(2) Has anyone had experience using IBM Prolog?  How natural would it be to
    use for one accustomed to C-Prolog (or any other Prolog that uses the
    syntax described in Clocksin and Mellish)? 

(3) Does anyone know of a Prolog that runs under VM/CMS that's closer to 
    C-Prolog?  Or, for that matter, does anyone know whether C-Prolog can
    be made to run under VM/CMS? 

cross@wsu.CSNET (George Cross) (07/23/86)

Intermetrics is selling VM/CMS Common Lisp.  The educational price was
recently $4000.  The documentation indicates a quite complete implementation
with interfaces to Intermetrics C language available.  There is an ad
for it on p32 of AI Magazine, V7, Number 1, Spring 1986.
    Intermetrics
    733 Concord Avenue
    Cambridge, MA 02138
    (617)-661-1840

Cognitive Systems may be selling CSI-LISP on top of IBM VM LISP.  This
is a rewrite of T, a Scheme dialect.  Details in AI Magazine, V6, Number
3, Fall 1985, page 248.


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