On 11/29/2017 05:13 PM, Steve Thompson wrote:
Quantum computing. Cognitive computing.
Back in 1990-95, as I recall, IBM had KT, ESE, TIRS, and IBM
Prolog for 370 (which ran on VM and MVS).
How many here know what any of the above products were?
KT -- Knowledge Tool
ESE - Expert System Environment (if I remember the full name
correctly)
TIRS - The Integrated Reasoning Shall. (TIRS pronounced Tears --
interesting story about that for another time).
Prolog (VM and MVS)
Anybody ever have a copy to work with or know of any shop that
had one of those products in production?
I happen to know of two installations back in those days.
ESE was used by GAD (abbrev for a German Banking/Financial
company) IIRC.
Prolog -- Dassault in France was a large user.
IBM sold TIRS to some other company (I've forgotten who).
And so now IBM is pushing Cognitive computing, and talking about
Quantum computing.
BTW -- I am the author of SMF 96 (x'60'), the Cross Memory Charge
back record, that was used by PROLOG when it was running in its
subsystem, as well as TIRS in its subsystem. I envisioned that
there would be more service providing address spaces....
But the irony was, it got named, by I have no idea who, the TIRS
SMF record. It took me a few years to get IBM to realize (since I
was outside of IBM at the time) that it was incorrectly named.
Just info that IBM had AI languages and was having difficulty in
selling them outside of academia from my experience while working
on these systems in the Palo Alto Science labs and then STL (now
SVL).
Regards,
Steve Thompson
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