Development environment for expert systems

Christaller, T., Di Primio, R, Schnepf, U., and Voss, A., The Al-Workbench BABYLON — An Open and Portable Development Environment for Expert Systems, Academic Press, New York, 1992. 

The development environment for expert systems includes both hardware and software. Initially, most of the expert systems were developed on microcomputers. However, as shown in Figure 2, there is a steady increase in the number of minicomputer or workstation based systems. This is due to a variety of factors, the most common of which is that the PC systems run out of computer "space" before they can solve a complex problem due to the size of the code and other operating requirements. The IBM compatible PC-AT is still the most common development platform because it is a very widely distributed system and provides the broadest user base. However, the limit of 640K of random access memory is causing programmers to undertake ingenious solutions to fit their code into this space. 

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