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>> I haven't researched "DMA" but I'll bet that it requires an extra processor in order to do the I/O while the main processor processes data internally.
WRONG.
DMA has been around since the first...

>> ... and it doesn't need 2 "cores" (processors) to overlap internal and external processing.
And neither do PC's. The CPU can be doing whatever the hell it wants while the bus/disk-controller/disk...

>> I have converted ADAM to run on Windows 32 bit but it is so restricted by the lame Windows operating system ...
The only thing restricting you is your unwillingness to learn and understand new...

>> Show me a PC that can be accessing data from a hard drive concurrently with processing data that it has accessed from the hard drive previously.
I'm assuming you have a PC - look at it.
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>> How it works is a trade secret that I plan to keep to myself.
If you change your mind, a write up of your algorithms and data structures would receive a lot more peer review than releasing just...

>> "Can you push the address of an ADAM control block onto the Stack and issue a Call to a subroutine in C#?"
I just realized that you probably meant "how do you call ADAMACMD(&acb) in C#". I don't...

Here's where I found that "masm32 sdk" that contains the dll example code I mentioned earlier: MASM32 Home Page. Since I'm not familiar with masm32, I went to the example code to see how it does...

>> "Can you push the address of an ADAM control block onto the Stack and issue a Call to a subroutine in C#?"
This sounds like you do need to support callbacks into whatever code is using your...

Since you are targeting Win32, my advice is to put your interface into a proper dll interface - the same type of interface that the Win32 API ("kernel" api to the OS) uses. This will allow trivial...

>> Under WINDOWS, unlike under DOS, you can only have one ADAM file open at any given time.
>> Because under Windows the memory that your program uses has to be defined at compile time rather than...

>> Under WINDOWS, unlike under DOS, you can only have one ADAM file open at any given time.
Why is that?

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