Date   : Tue, 25 Oct 2005 14:18:30 +0100
From   : "David Hunt" <dm.hunt@...>
Subject: Re: Copying from DFS to ADFS

> > The process is slow and shadow RAM is used as temporary memory, so you
> need
> > to make sure it is switched off, e.g.
> >
> > *SHADOW 0
> > MODE 7
> 
> I used *MOVE quite a bit when I was a regular Master user, and I don't
> ever recall having to turn off shadow memory. MODE 135 (shadowed 7) was my
> usual mode of choice.
> 
> I can imagine it might use the shadow memory if it was free, to reduce the
> number of read-write cycles, but are you sure you were forced to use main
> memory?

I'd suspect that it would use the remaining shadow RAM for the buffer during
the swap, the 1K used in MODE 135 won't make much odds, however, the 20k
used by MODE 128 would be significant.

Dave ;)