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- Welcome to ESIE!
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- Maxell Release November 1986
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-
- ESIE (pronounced "easy") is the acronym for Expert System
- Inference Engine. ESIE is an Expert System Shell; a tool in
- the field of Artificial Intelligence.
-
- The ESIE distribution diskette, of which this README is one
- file, may be freely copied and distributed. Printed copies
- of this manual, or this manual without the rest of the files
- on the distribution diskette, may not be copied or reproduced
- in any form.
-
- This release of ESIE is a special one created solely for the
- Maxell AI Toolbox advertising campaign. The same
- restrictions that apply to this release apply to any release
- of the ESIE system. Namely, you may copy and distribute this
- diskette as long as the copy is an exact duplicate of the
- distribution diskette.
-
- Ten files are normally found on the ESIE distribution
- diskette. These have been changed somewhat for this release:
-
- ** Normal ** ** Maxell **
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- ESIE.COM ESIE.COM
- MANUAL MANUAL.ESI
- READ.ME README.ESI
- FORM FORM.ESI
- ANIMAL ANIMAL.ESI
- GLASS GLASS.ESI
- DOCTOR DOCTOR.ESI
- TUTOR *1*
- USER *1*
- HISTORY *1*
- DOS.ESI *2*
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- *1* - deleted for this release.
- *2* - added for this release. Acknowledgement to Anthony J.
- Kadysewski; Drums, PA for providing Lightwave with
- DOS.ESI. Mr. Kadysewski is an enthusiastic ESIE user.
-
- The files found on this release are identical to their ESIE
- distribution diskette counterparts except for their names and
- a few minor changes. These changes where instituted due to
- space restrictions on the Maxell eleventh diskette and to
- make logical room for Logic Line 1 - an AI product from our
- friend corporation: Thunderstone.
-
- THIS SYSTEM IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
- EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO
- THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A
- PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND
- PERFORMANCE OF THIS SYSTEM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE SYSTEM
- PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU (AND NOT LIGHTWAVE NOR MAXELL) ASSUME
- THE ENTIRE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR AND
- CORRECTION.
-
- With ESIE you can put some "smarts" into your personal
- computer. You can build custom "knowledge bases" (KBs) that
- can be used to aid people, like you and me, in doing things
- that we would not be capable of doing, or doing as well,
- without the system. ESIE knowledge bases can be built to
- help us make decisions or to make our computers "more human."
-
- May we suggest that you make a copy of the distribution
- diskette before you get started? This will make it easier
- for you to pass ESIE and Logic Line 1 along to your friends
- and associates.
-
- You can use either the DOS COPY *.* command or the DOS
- DISKCOPY command to copy the distribution diskette. ESIE is
- perfectly at home in hard disk systems.
-
- ESIE comes with its own manual on the distribution diskette.
- To print this manual enter the command:
-
- COPY MANUAL.ESI PRN
-
- at the DOS prompt. It is only 25 pages long!
-
- If you want to see ESIE in action before you do anything,
- then slide the diskette in a floppy disk drive and type in
- the command:
-
- ESIE
-
- The ESIE introductory screen will appear. At the top of this
- screen ESIE is asking you to supply the file name where the
- knowledge can be found. Type in ANIMAL.ESI.
-
- You will next be brought to the ESIE top level. Think of an
- animal that you want ESIE to find. Then type in GO. Answer
- the questions ESIE puts to you correctly and it will figure
- out what the animal is.
-
- To get a printed copy of this file, README.ESI, enter:
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- COPY README.ESI PRN
-
- at the DOS prompt.