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From: wade@pnet01.cts.com (Wade Bickel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Shadow RAM
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Date: 15 Nov 89 09:36:10 GMT
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bear@bu-pub.bu.edu (Blair M. Burtan) writes:
>Does anyone think that Shadow RAM would be effective on an Ami?
>For those of you who have never heard of this concept, I'll explain.
>I was watching "the Computer Chronicles" a few days ago and they
>were talking about ways of speeding up system.  One of the things
>they mentioned was "Shadow RAM."  Basically this concept takes
>routines from ROM and places them in RAM.  The claim is that RAM
>is faster than ROM.  Would it be possible/worth the effort to
>take some of the graphics primitives from RAM and store them in ROM?

 
        For those with 68020's or 30's there is a program (I believe by
Dave Haynie of CATS) which will place the rom routines into the 32-bit
memory for a noticable speed up of programs which use a lot of system calls.

 
                                                                -Wade.

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