Arity/Prolog
Description
A Prolog development system initially supplied in 1985 for DOS with a version for 16 bit OS/2 following a few years after, these 16 bit systems were sold on a modular basis, you could start out by buying an interpreter, then add a compiler, SQL Sever and so on. The initial version shipped for 32 bit OS/2 was a new development of the compiler and interpreter and not fully compatible with the older Arity/Prolog version 6 for 16 bit DOS and OS/2.
Version
Arity/Prolog32
- Latest version for OS/2 and Windows: v.1.1
- Retail price was USD $650 for each platform, USD 350 for upgrades from any earlier version 16 or 32 bit.
- Version 1.0: Initial 32 bit OS/2 version.
- Only sold as a bundle for US$ 2450 for the OS/2 version + Windows NT version.
Arity/Prolog
- Last known version for 16 bit OS/2 and DOS: V6
- 2 to 5 times faster than the 16 bit version of V6.
- Code is no longer compiled through the database.
- No limit on the number of atoms in an application.
- New PM debugger for PM-based applications. New ALINT utility to check declarations, style and typo.
- Multi-threaded, multi-processing support.
- IBM C Set/2 is recommended, although not compulsory.
- Development environment is text based.
- Provides binding to SOM (limited support).
- No standard PM predicates (eg dialogue box) built-in.
- Requires about 2MB of disk space.
Links
- GitHub page
- Replacement Lint for Arity/Prolog32
License
Commercial. Discontinued.
Author
- Peter Gabel
- Paul Weiss
- Jim Greene
Publications
Related Articles
- A review of Arity/Prolog for DOS from 1986 - By PC Magazine