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You were the first to bring up politics in this thread. I think that disqualifies you from trying to suggest that others should refrain from doing the same. Hypocrisy is a nasty character trait,...

The source won't do me much good without detailed documentation. I'm not an assembly language programmer. I understand a little bit, but I'm hardly fluent in it. I'd need really serious...

I think you'll need to release your source and a detailed description of your algorithms and processes, to at least one other person, if you expect it to gain any traction at all. The 16-bit DOS...

That's the point of open source software. Let's be honest here. There's no way ADAM has any chance of seeing widespread use until it's converted to a programming language more people understand,...

My advice:

Path A:
1. Copyright ADAM.
2. Get patents on the technology in ADAM, if it is unique and "novel" enough to qualify for one or more patent.
3. Draft a non-disclosure agreement, and...

I'm still willing to help you with getting ADAM to work on Win32. I assure you that it is possible to make it work with multiple files per process, even without access to the segment registers.

You could skip full screen mode, and just use Win32-based GUI. There is a number of ways to do that, whether with raw calls to the Win32 DLLs, or by using some sort of GUI toolkit like GTK+ or Qt. ...

Laptop versus desktop should be no difference at all. It should work either way, unless you're setting a specific screen resolution.

You'd probably provide a network connection and API to access ADAM from other virtual machines. To do what you want, the way you want to do it, you won't be able to run from within Windows. You...

I think you might do well to look into XenServer. I think it would get you pretty close to the level of control you're used to having on a mainframe. My experience with a mainframe was that there...

I wasn't judging. I was actually giving you the benefit of the doubt, looking for a rational explanation that would give you some credibility, and if this is in fact your story, then it may just be...

I am going to assume that this is a serious question. I can understand that if you worked on mainframes for a significant part of your career, the hardware differences of mainframes versus PCs, and...

Is it possible that you are this William R. Mattison? It would explain why a programmer with an alleged 40 years of experience would have so little knowledge of modern operating systems and CPU...

There is no ECS, EDS, or EES register in x86 architecture. They remain 16-bit registers, despite the update to 64-bit general purpose registers.

Honestly, what good would that do? The bits of...

In modern computers (probably even the S/390), the DMA controller is not an "extra processor," but rather a component of the CPU itself, along with the memory controller and priority interrupt...

You choose to identify yourself as Will1 on this forum. I have not referred to you in any other way. I choose to identify myself as Elkvis. It would be appropriate and respectful for you to...

I've asked you politely not to refer to me this way. I'm not your buddy. You don't get to give me a nickname. Please stop.



Did you even bother to try to find out for yourself?

On...

What you fail to realize is that modern "mainframes" are really nothing more than high-end PCs with many CPU cores and tons of memory and mass storage. IBM's mainframes typically run Linux or AIX...

Most non-embedded database systems use shared memory, named pipes, or other IPC (inter-process communication) systems to communicate between application and database. They each have their own...

And I've been trying to tell you throughout this discussion that you don't need them. I can guarantee beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is a way to implement your system without using segment...

Maybe this is a stupid question, but since we're now on to asking lots of those, I'll chime back in here.

How in the name of Odin is this better than SQL? ISO Standard SQL defines a common...

I'm done. I gave you my advice, but now you're talking politics and comparing PCs to mainframes, and just getting way off topic. Good luck!

In what way is any of the aspects you mentioned about DOS superior to modern systems? Direct hardware access? More like blatant disregard for security. That's what direct hardware access is. It...

One path that might suit your intentions might be to use ADAM to implement a storage engine for MySQL. MySQL is an open source RDBMS that has a pluggable storage engine interface. It comes with...

You haven't been here long enough or developed a sufficient reputation to refer to me in such a casual way, especially since I can tell from the tone of your post that you meant it in a more-or-less...