Software Reviews : MICROEXPERT,Version 1.0,by Beverly and William Thompson Reviewed by William P. Yohe,Duke University Publisher: McGraw-Hill Software,P.O. Box 407,Hightstown,NJ 08520 (telephone: [phone]) Year of Publication: 1985 Materials: One DSDD disk (ISM version);two SSDD disks (Apple version);not copy-protected;74-page user's guide Price: $49.95 Machine Specificity: IBM and compatibles;Apple II + /c/e;Macintosh version forthcoming System Requirements: 128K and one drive (IBM version);64K and two drives (Apple version);80 col.;Apple version needs Apple PASCAL Effectiveness: Excellent User-Friendliness: Good Documentation: Good

Abstract

Summary: Written in PASCAL /IBM = TURBO, Apple = Apple PASCAL), this is an inexpensive way for social scientists to experiment with a "backward chaining" expert systems shell program. Via a word processor or PASCAL editor, a knowledge base may be built with up to 400 IF...THEN rules, with accompanying prompts and translations. With a PASCAL compiler, functions and procedures may be added.