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Special AI Issue $3.00 June-July 1986 Special AI Issue PROLOG On The PC ................................... 6 A thorough comparison of PROLOGS available on the PC. Expert Systems and Logic Programming ................. 12 Expert systems designers are handing out numbers to prospective customers. Opening Bids In Bridge ............................... 18 A great example of how AI works. Grab your PROLOG and start coding. And More Building Your Own Logic Analyzer .............................. 26 Can't afford a commercial 32-channel logic analyzer? You can afford this one. 86 World ....................................................... 36 Our man in Turkey trots all over Asia looking for the complete supplier of drives, systems, boa_rds. 0'° ,., 256K RAM For Your 83 Kaypro .................................. 44 co Finally, a do-it-yourself RAM upgrade for this venerable Z80 machine. co M °'~ 0 PC-DOS For Non-Clones ........................................ 54 "- ~ Write a PC BIOS for your 8086-8088 system. ~ "- 0 Brep-by-step tutorial, demo programs with source code included! Turbo Prolog 1.0 Technical SpecitJ.cations Borland introduces Turbo Prolog, ProgzmnmiDt 8yst,em .libatures f!:1' Compiler. Incremental rompller gen­ erating Illl.tlVe ln-llne cxxle and llnkable oQJect malules. The l1nk1ng fonnat la the natural language of romµit.lble with the FCOOS linker. large memmymcxiel support. Complies over 2600 llnea per minute on a standard !EM ro. f!:1' Int.eracttve 1'4tt.or: The E\)'Bt.em Artificial Intelligence. lnCludes a p:iwerful lnterect!Ve 1\J!l-rereen text editor. If the rompller detects an error, the ed!tor auoomatlCalzy pooltJona the curoor epproprlately In the rource cxxle. At run-t!me, Turlxl Prolog ~can call Prolog is probably the most the edit.or, and v1eW the runrung PI'®'Wil's oouroe cxxle. powerful computer programming f!:1' 7Jpe 8yBt:8m: A flexible oQJect,orWnted language ever conceived, which is cype E\)'Bt.em la supported. f!:1' W1Ddowtng Bupport: The E\)'Bt.em wbywe've made it our second supports !xJth graphic and text WlndowB. language-and ''turbocharged" it to f!:1' Input/Output: Full I/O fac111t!ea, Including formatted I/0, streams, and create Turbo Prolog ... random aooeaa files. f!:1' .Numeric P.a.nges: Integel'B: -32:lf!7 to Our new Turbo Prolog brings 32767; Reala: lE-307 to IE+zre supercomputer power to your IBM® f!:1' .Debugg1Dg: Complete bullt-tn trare de­ buggtng CB.IW111t!ea allow1ng Single PC and introduces you step-by-step to st.eppJng of~ the fascinating new world of Artificial Intelligence. And does all this for an ,........... , astounding $99.95. 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