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The Agricultural Engineering department has three Texas Instrument Explorers located in AGEN 118. They are Lisp-based workstations used to developed expert systems in the area of soil erosion and forest harvesting. Each Explorer consists of a 1024 x 808 bit-mapped display, a 7 MHZ 32-bit processor, 8-megabytes of memory, an ethernet board, and several 112- megabyte Winchester disk drives. The Explorers support TCP/IP to talk over the AGEN research ethernet to both AA and AB vaxes for telnet remote logins and file transfer using ftp.
The Explorers have several software "toolkits" from TI such as the Natural Language Menu System, and the Relational Table Mangement System. Another software package is the Knowledge Engineering Environment (KEE) system from Intellicorp used to build expert systems.
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