DAVEA@vxcern.decnet.cern.ch (11/17/89)
As a student in Britian I was raised on the BBC series of computers made by Acorn. I think they were the first users of shadow ram. You could use it as a primitive ram disk or more commonly load in rom images of things like word processors and spreadsheet or any other image you wanted. This was one of the secret of the machines success as it meant that these applications were readily available. If you used the same thing for copying in a rom application that is already loaded then I dont see much advantage. But you could use banks of shadow ram to pre-stage language compliation, ie have the linker loaded before you compile. With the multi-tasking software that the Amiga has aND THE COPious amounts of memory then shadow ram really doesnt have much of an advange David Almond. No flies on me !